1911 - 1988
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb. After his conviction in 1950, he served nine years in prison in the United Kingdom, then migrated to East Germany where he resumed his career as a physicist and scientific leader. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Fuchs attended the University of Leipzig, where his father was a professor of theology, and became involved in student politics, joining the student branch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the SPD's paramilitary organisation. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Klaus Fuchs has received more than 1,593,535 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Klaus Fuchs is the 247th most popular physicist (up from 267th in 2019), the 960th most popular biography from Germany (down from 952nd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Physicist.
Klaus Fuchs was a German physicist who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1940s. He was a member of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. He was arrested in 1950 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Among physicists, Klaus Fuchs ranks 247 out of 721. Before him are Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Nevill Francis Mott, Julian Schwinger, Leo Esaki, Fritjof Capra, and Patrick Blackett. After him are Clifford Shull, Bertram Brockhouse, Herbert Kroemer, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and John Kendrew.
1932 - 2007
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 241
1905 - 1996
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 242
1918 - 1994
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 243
1925 - Present
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 244
1939 - Present
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 245
1897 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 246
1911 - 1988
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 247
1915 - 2001
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 248
1918 - 2003
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 249
1928 - Present
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 250
1899 - 1980
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 251
1746 - 1822
HPI: 69.70
Rank: 252
1917 - 1997
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 253
Among people born in 1911, Klaus Fuchs ranks 54. Before him are Ernesto Sabato, Gustav Wagner, William Howard Stein, Bruno Kreisky, Robert Taylor, and Stanisława Walasiewicz. After him are Sergey Sokolov, Karl Silberbauer, Herta Oberheuser, Niels Kaj Jerne, Alfred Naujocks, and Feodor Lynen. Among people deceased in 1988, Klaus Fuchs ranks 25. Before him are John Holmes, Kim Philby, Clifford D. Simak, Gert Fröbe, Paul Grice, and Hiroaki Sato. After him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Tibor Sekelj, André Frédéric Cournand, Muzafer Sherif, Valerie Solanas, and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
1911 - 2011
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 48
1911 - 1980
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 49
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 50
1911 - 1990
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 51
1911 - 1969
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 52
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 53
1911 - 1988
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 54
1911 - 2012
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 55
1911 - 1972
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 56
1911 - 1978
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 57
1911 - 1994
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 58
1911 - 1966
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 59
1911 - 1979
HPI: 69.39
Rank: 60
1944 - 1988
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 19
1912 - 1988
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 20
1904 - 1988
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 21
1913 - 1988
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 22
1913 - 1988
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 23
1932 - 1988
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 24
1911 - 1988
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 25
1927 - 1988
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 26
1912 - 1988
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 27
1895 - 1988
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 28
1906 - 1988
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 29
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 30
1924 - 1988
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 31
Among people born in Germany, Klaus Fuchs ranks 960 out of 5,289. Before him are Eugen Dühring (1833), Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775), Ernst Barlach (1870), Bernd Schuster (1959), Stefan Lochner (1410), and Helmut Rahn (1929). After him are Georg Wittig (1897), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Joachim Frank (1940), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Mary Wigman (1886), and Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887).
1833 - 1921
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 954
1775 - 1833
HPI: 69.96
Rank: 955
1870 - 1938
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 956
1959 - Present
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 957
1410 - 1451
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 958
1929 - 2003
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 959
1911 - 1988
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 960
1897 - 1987
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 961
1818 - 1892
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 962
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 963
1107 - 1177
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 964
1886 - 1973
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 965
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 966
Among physicists born in Germany, Klaus Fuchs ranks 33. Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Carl von Linde (1842), Gerd Binnig (1947), and Max Delbrück (1906). After him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Rainer Weiss (1932), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), and Jack Steinberger (1921).
1922 - 2017
HPI: 72.01
Rank: 27
1911 - 1993
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 28
1913 - 1993
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 29
1842 - 1934
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 30
1947 - Present
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 31
1906 - 1981
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 32
1911 - 1988
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 33
1928 - Present
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 34
1875 - 1953
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 35
1932 - Present
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.41
Rank: 37
1912 - 2007
HPI: 69.20
Rank: 38
1921 - 2020
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 39