Fuchs

[ fyooks ]

noun

1. Daniel, 1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
2. Klaus Emil Julius [klous], 1911–88, British physicist and atom spy for the Soviet Union, born in Germany.
3. Sir Vivian (Ernest), 1908–1999, British geologist and Antarctic explorer.

Fuchs

/ fʊks; fuːks /

noun

1. FuchsKlaus Emil19111988MBritishGermanSCIENCE: physicist Klaus Emil . (klaus ˈeːmiːl). 1911–88, East German physicist. He was born in Germany, became a British citizen (1942), and was imprisoned (1950–59) for giving secret atomic research information to the Soviet Union
2. FuchsSir Vivian Ernest19081999MEnglishTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerSCIENCE: geologist Sir Vivian Ernest . 1908–99, English explorer and geologist: led the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–58)

Example Sentences

These hires contributed to a $4.3 million increase in salary expenses compared to UF’s former president Kent Fuchs’ spending.

From Salon

Elinor Fuchs, whose impassioned insights into contemporary theater — first as a critic prowling the avant-garde scene in New York, and later as a professor at Yale — made her one of the leading scholars of the modern American stage, died on May 28 at her home in the West Village of Manhattan.

From New York Times

Professor Fuchs specialized in dramaturgy, or the construction of a play, including its dramatic structure, its characters’ motivations and technical issues about set design and lighting.

From New York Times

But in Professor Fuchs’s hands, it became a vital tool for examining the revolutionary new forms of theater emerging in the 1960s and ’70s, forms that complicated — or dismissed entirely — conventional notions about character, dramatic arc and authorial intention.

From New York Times

Unlike many other theater scholars, Professor Fuchs first came at these questions from a journalistic point of view.

From New York Times