Fuchs

Fuchs, Klaus Emil, 1912-88, British physicist and Communist spy, b. Germany. In 1933 he fled Germany for England, where he completed his education. Interned (1940-41) in Canada as an enemy alien, he made no attempt to conceal his Communist sympathies and was soon released, becoming a naturalized British citizen. In 1943, he began work on the development of the atomic bomb project in the United States; during this period, he started transmitting information to the Soviet Union. He later (1946) became head of the theoretical physics division of the atomic research center at Harwell and continued his espionage activities, which were suspected only because of information gleaned by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation from confessed Communist agents in the United States. Arrested in Britain in 1950, he pleaded guilty and was imprisoned. Fuchs was released in 1959 and went to East Germany, where he was director of East Germany's Institute for Nuclear Physics until his retirement in 1979.

Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest, 1908-99, English geologist and explorer, b. Kent, educated at Cambridge. He was a geologist on expeditions to Greenland (1929) and to Africa (1930-38). After army service in World War II, Fuchs became connected (1947) with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, which included Antarctica; he directed the British Antarctic Survey from 1958 to 1973. With Sir Edmund Hillary he led (1957-58) the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and accomplished the first completely overland crossing of Antarctica. Fuchs was knighted in 1958 and in 1959 received the Hubbard Medal, the highest award of the National Geographic Society. He is credited with determining that Antarctica's ice lies atop a single landmass.

Fuchs is German for Fox.

It is also commonly used as a family name and as a designation for a German tank.

As a surname, in English, the name is often pronounced /fuːks/ (rendered in IPA; the /uː/ phoneme is an English "long u"), /fʊks/ (rhyming with "books"), closer to the German pronunciation, or even /fɒks/ (like "fox"), as a reference to the name's meaning. The pronunciation /fʌks/ (like "fuck") is typically avoided.

Industry

• Fuchs Petrolub, the world's largest independent manufacturer of lubricants, and related speciality products.
• Fuchs Group, spice company based in Germany

Medicine

• Fuchs' dystrophy

Military

• Transportpanzer Fuchs, a German armoured personnel carrier

People

• Arved Fuchs (born 1953), writer and adventurer
• Bernard Fuchs (born 1916), French pilot and hero of the Second World War, Compagnon de la Libération
• Charlie Fuchs, American baseball player
• Daniel Fuchs (1909–1993), writer and screenwriter
• Eduard Fuchs, Marxist cultural scientist
• Emil Fuchs (1874–1971), German theologian.
• Emil Fuchs (1878–1961), owner of the Boston Braves 1923 – 1935.
• Erika Fuchs, German translator of Disney comics
• Ernst Fuchs (disambiguation)
• Franz Fuchs, Austrian terrorist
• Gottfried Fuchs, soccer player
• Harald Fuchs (born 1951), professor of physics
• Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs, German chemist
• Joseph Fuchs, American violinst
• Josef Fuchs (born 1912), German theologian
• Kenneth Fuchs (born 1956), American composer of classical music
• Klaus Fuchs, German-born British physicist and Soviet spy, later resident of the GDR
• Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician
• Leonhart Fuchs (sometimes Leonhard), German physician and botanist
• Michael Fuchs (disambiguation)
• Peter Paul Fuchs (1916–2007) , Austrian born conductor and composer
• Richard Fuchs, (1887–1947) architect and composer
• Robert Fuchs (1847–1927), Austrian composer
• Ruth Fuchs (born 1946), German athlete
• Thomas Fuchs (disambiguation)
• Sir Vivian Fuchs, British geologist and polar explorer
• Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs, mathematician