The Papers of Sir Vivian Fuchs 1931-1948

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The Papers of Sir Vivian Fuchs 1931-1948

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6 boxes

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Cambridge University: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

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Fuchs, Vivian, Sir

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Sir Vivien Fuchs

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Vivian Ernst Fuchs, often referred to as Bunny, was the son of the German immigrant Ernst Fuchs from Jena and of his British wife Violet Watson. Fuchs was born in 1908 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight. During the First World War the internment of all Germans was ordered and his father was put in a prison camp for aliens on the Isle of Man. In 1917, aged nine, Vivian Fuchs went to Asheton Preparatory School near Tenterden,Kent, where he became Head Boy. After attending Bright...