Published “Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3” in Nature — cited 15,599 times.
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Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist 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 t…
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Born 29 December 1911 · Died 28 January 1988 · Q57475
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Was the primary focus of the second season of the BBC World Service's podcast The Bomb
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Published “Cancer statistics, 2022” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 13,198 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Cancer Statistics, 2021” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 12,208 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 9,359 times.
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1988· 2 entries
Died 1988-01-28.
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“I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.”
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Hervorragender Wissenschaftler des Volkes (1986).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Karl Marx (1979).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded National Prize of East Germany (1975).
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Patriotic Order of Merit (1971).
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1967· 1 entry
And in 1972 was elected to the Academy of Sciences where from 1974 to 1978 he was the head of the research area of physics, nuclear and materials science; he was then appointed deputy director of the Central Institute fo
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1959· 1 entry
After serving nine years, and migrated to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), where he was elected to the Academy of Sciences and became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) central committee
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1950· 1 entry
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
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1947· 2 entries
Fuchs attended a conference of the Combined Policy Committee (CPC), which was created to facilitate exchange of atomic secrets at the highest levels of governments of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada
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And only after being directly prompted for it by his contact
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1946· 1 entry
“The last time when I handed over information [to Russian authorities] was in February or March 1949”
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1945· 2 entries
And the diffusion method in July 1945, but (Fuchs) says the latter estimate is optimistic
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And further information about Edward Teller's unworkable "Super" design for a hydrogen bomb in 1946 and 1947
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1943· 1 entry
Fuchs and Peierls went to Columbia University, in New York City, to work on the Manhattan Project
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1941· 1 entry
Became an assistant to Rudolf Peierls, working on "Tube Alloys"—the British atomic bomb project
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1940· 1 entry
Continued to work and published four more papers with Born: The Mass Centre in Relativity, Reciprocity, Part II: Scalar Wave Functions, Reciprocity, Part III: Reciprocal Wave Functions and Reciprocity, Part IV: Spinor
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at University of Bristol (1933–1937).
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1936· 2 entries
Kittowski and Elisabeth were arrested again, and the rental cars were impounded
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Emil arranged with Quaker friends in the United States for Kristel to attend Swarthmore College there
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1934· 1 entry
Where she too worked at the car rental agency
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1933· 4 entries
Studied at Kiel University (1931–1933).
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His other daughter, Kristel, fled to Zurich, where she studied education and psychology at the University of Zurich
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And sentenced to 18 months imprisonment but were freed at Christmas
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Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1933–1933).
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1932· 1 entry
And joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
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1931· 1 entry
Studied at Leipzig University (1930–1931).
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1930· 1 entry
Where his father was a professor of theology
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1921· 1 entry
And the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the party's paramilitary organisation
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-12-29.
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