Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass) were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were convicted of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines and valuable nuclear weapon designs (at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons). Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.Other convicted co-conspirators were sentenced to prison, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass (who had made a plea agreement), Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has received more than 4,619,915 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is the 17th most popular mafioso (down from 15th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from United States (down from 734th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Mafioso.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951. They were accused of passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. They were executed in 1953.