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• FUCHS (noun)
The noun FUCHS has 1 sense:
1. British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
Familiarity information: FUCHS used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs; Fuchs; Klaus Fuchs
Instance hypernyms:
physicist (a scientist trained in physics)
Context examples
The most common causes of corneal endothelial decompensation in the adult population are cataract removal/IOL-related endothelial loss and Fuchs dystrophy.
(Corneal Decompensation, NCI Thesaurus)
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