11. Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. He was responsible for many significant findings and developments related to the atomic weapons the U.S. was making. The biggest and most significant research he was involved in was the Manhattan Project.
Klaus was highly regarded as one of the best physicists in his field and was widely respected. It came as a shock when in 1950 he confessed and was convicted of being a spy for the Germans. He had been supplying Germany with inside information related to atomic weapons since 1942. He was imprisoned for fifteen years and afterwards returned to Germany where he was celebrated and welcomed back as an almost hero of sorts. He lived and worked in Germany until his death in 1988.
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