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Events on Thursday 28 January 1988 1
1911 – 1988Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988)Died 28 January 1988, aged 76Klaus Fuchs was a German-born physicist who passed atomic bomb secrets from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and after World War II. He was convicted of espionage in Britain in 1950 and served nine years in prison before moving to East Germany. His disclosures significantly accelerated the Soviet nuclear weapons program.