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LC - Lapsed Certificates of candidature for Fellowship of the Royal Society
- 1951 - Lapsed Election Certificates

RefNo	LC/1951/08
Level	Item
Title	Fuchs, Klaus Emil Julius
Date	26 November 1948
Description	Certificate of Candidate for Election to the Fellowship Suspended 1949, 1950 Lapsed 1951 Withdrawn 22 April 1950
Citation	Dr Fuchs has made notable contributions to the quantum theory of the elastic constants, and to relativistic quantum theory. Of his more recent work in the Atomic Energy Project few details can be published, but it is known that he has done pioneer work on such diverse problems as the approach to equilibrium, and the control of a multi-stage separation plant and the theory of blast waves. There is hardly a theoretical problem in the atomic energy field in which our knowledge has not been widened considerably by his work, or by work done under his guidance and inspiration.
Proposers	Proposer: R E Peierls; Seconder: J D Cockcroft; M L Oliphant; H S W Massey; H W B Skinner; G I Taylor; J Chadwick
Extent	1p
Format	Typescript
Notes	Note in red ink on certificate: ' WITHDRAWN by proposer, in letter dated 22 April 1950. D C Martin, Assistant Secretary ' German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research (the Manhattan Project) to the USSR 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 fission weapons and later, the early models of the hydrogen bomb, the first fusion weapon
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