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KLAUS FUCHS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
Synonyms:
Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs; Fuchs; Klaus Fuchs
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Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)