K. Fuchs Reads Newspapers

Abstract/Description:	Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist, made significant contributions to the Super program at Los Alamos until 1946, when he returned to the UK. He also passed on US atomic and thermonuclear secrets to the Soviets. Here he is shown in East Germany in 1960, after 9 years in an English prison, his British citizenship revoked. Photo received from G. A. Goncharov from the private archive of Aleksandr Semenovich Felisov, the Soviet intelligence courier who worked with Fuchs in England in 1947-1949.
Subject(s):	Outdoors Eyeglasses World War II Nuclear physics--Research Portraits Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
Date Created:	1960
Credit Line:	DEFA-Photo, German Democratic Republic, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Catalog ID:	Fuchs Klaus B1

Title:	K. Fuchs Reads Newspapers.
Type of Resource:	still image
Date Created:	1960
Extent:	1 photographic print (black and white; 9.5 x 7.5 inches)
Abstract/Description:	Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist, made significant contributions to the Super program at Los Alamos until 1946, when he returned to the UK. He also passed on US atomic and thermonuclear secrets to the Soviets. Here he is shown in East Germany in 1960, after 9 years in an English prison, his British citizenship revoked. Photo received from G. A. Goncharov from the private archive of Aleksandr Semenovich Felisov, the Soviet intelligence courier who worked with Fuchs in England in 1947-1949.
Identifier(s):	Fuchs Klaus B1 (Catalog ID)
Note(s):	Credit Line: DEFA-Photo, German Democratic Republic, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
Subject(s):	Outdoors Eyeglasses World War II Nuclear physics--Research Portraits Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius, 1911-1988
Held by:	Niels Bohr Library & Archives
Related Title:	Physics Today Collection.
In Collections:	Physics Today Collection