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 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 2,711,672 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Klaus Fuchs is the 254th most popular physicist (down from 247th in 2019), the 1,031st most popular biography from Germany (down from 960th in 2019) and the 38th 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 254 out of 717. Before him are David J. Wineland, Theodor W. Hänsch, Yoichiro Nambu, Serge Haroche, Joseph Plateau, and Gérard Mourou. After him are Daniel Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Anthony James Leggett, John Cockcroft, Moshé Feldenkrais, and Rainer Weiss.
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 248
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 249
1921 - 2015
HPI: 60.85
Rank: 250
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.81
Rank: 251
1801 - 1883
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 252
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 253
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 254
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 255
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 256
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 257
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 258
1904 - 1984
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 259
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 260
Among people born in 1911, Klaus Fuchs ranks 56. Before him are Robert Taylor, Henri Troyat, Ernesto Sabato, Karl Silberbauer, Alfred Naujocks, and Nicholas Ray. After him are Lucille Ball, Gustav Wagner, Akira Yoshizawa, Feodor Lynen, Karel Čurda, and Bernard Herrmann. Among people deceased in 1988, Klaus Fuchs ranks 27. Before him are John Holmes, Clifford D. Simak, Luis Barragán, André Frédéric Cournand, Tibor Sekelj, and Paul Grice. After him are Muzafer Sherif, Franz Josef Strauss, Farida of Egypt, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Raj Kapoor, and Hermann Graf.
1911 - 1969
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 50
1911 - 2007
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 51
1911 - 2011
HPI: 60.93
Rank: 52
1911 - 1972
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 53
1911 - 1966
HPI: 60.86
Rank: 54
1911 - 1979
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 55
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 56
1911 - 1989
HPI: 60.36
Rank: 57
1911 - 1980
HPI: 60.27
Rank: 58
1911 - 2005
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 59
1911 - 1979
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 60
1911 - 1947
HPI: 59.97
Rank: 61
1911 - 1975
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 62
1944 - 1988
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 21
1904 - 1988
HPI: 61.88
Rank: 22
1902 - 1988
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 23
1895 - 1988
HPI: 61.27
Rank: 24
1912 - 1988
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 25
1913 - 1988
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 26
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 27
1906 - 1988
HPI: 60.47
Rank: 28
1915 - 1988
HPI: 60.10
Rank: 29
1921 - 1988
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 30
1905 - 1988
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 31
1924 - 1988
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 32
1912 - 1988
HPI: 59.70
Rank: 33
Among people born in Germany, Klaus Fuchs ranks 1,031 out of 6,142. Before him are Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781), Manfred Rommel (1928), Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1709), Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862), Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810), and Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1671). After him are Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831), Ernst Barlach (1870), Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (1759), Stefan Lochner (1410), Martin Schulz (1955), and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (1830).
1781 - 1860
HPI: 60.74
Rank: 1,025
1928 - 2013
HPI: 60.72
Rank: 1,026
1709 - 1758
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 1,027
1862 - 1959
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 1,028
1810 - 1858
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 1,029
1671 - 1702
HPI: 60.70
Rank: 1,030
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 1,031
1831 - 1909
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 1,032
1870 - 1938
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,033
1759 - 1838
HPI: 60.66
Rank: 1,034
1410 - 1451
HPI: 60.65
Rank: 1,035
1955 - Present
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 1,036
1830 - 1911
HPI: 60.61
Rank: 1,037
Among physicists born in Germany, Klaus Fuchs ranks 38. Before him are Max Delbrück (1906), Carl von Linde (1842), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), John B. Goodenough (1922), and Theodor W. Hänsch (1941). After him are Rainer Weiss (1932), Jack Steinberger (1921), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), and Friedrich Hund (1896).
1906 - 1981
HPI: 62.19
Rank: 32
1842 - 1934
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 33
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 34
1950 - Present
HPI: 61.03
Rank: 35
1922 - 2023
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 36
1941 - Present
HPI: 60.88
Rank: 37
1911 - 1988
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 38
1932 - Present
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 39
1921 - 2020
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 40
1912 - 2007
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 41
1875 - 1953
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 42
1756 - 1827
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 43
1896 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 44