Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs

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A German-born British scientist who passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union

proper noun

: Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs

Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs was convicted of espionage for sharing atomic secrets with the Soviet Union.

Examples

The revelations about Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs shocked the scientific community in the 1950s.
The spy Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs was arrested in 1950.
History books often detail the actions of Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs during the Manhattan Project.
Did Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs really betray his country?
Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs was convicted of espionage for sharing atomic secrets with the Soviet Union.
The spy Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs was arrested in 1950.
History books often detail the actions of Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs during the Manhattan Project.

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Emil + Klaus + Julius + Fuchs

This item is a proper name consisting of personal names and a surname; knowing the constituent names does not allow a learner to infer the biographical fact that he was a German‑born British physicist and spy. Proper nouns are referential and arbitrary rather than compositional, so the meaning requires world knowledge or prior exposure rather than derivation from the parts.

Etymology

Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs was a German-born British scientist who worked on the atomic bomb and secretly gave important information to the Soviet Union in the 1940s. That's why his name is remembered as a 'spy' in the history of science.