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FUCHS

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• FUCHS (noun)
The noun FUCHS has 1 sense:

1. British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)

Familiarity information: FUCHS used as a noun is very rare.

• FUCHS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs; Fuchs; Klaus Fuchs

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

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