Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs (1911-88), German physicist and spy. As a young man he studied at Kiel University and became a member of the Communist party. In 1933 he went to Britain to escape the .Nazis and was interned as a Ger-man citizen at the beginning of World War II. On his release he became involved in nuclear research for the Allies, taking British citizenship in 1942. Sent to the US to work on the atomic bomb in 1944, he was appointed head of Harwell Atomic Energy Research Station on his return to Britain at the end of the war. He was imprisoned in 1950 for passing information to the Russians; after his release in 1959 he became an East German citizen.
