Harry Gold

Harry Gold
Gold after his arrest by the FBI
Born	Henrich Golodnitsky (1910-12-11)December 11, 1910 Bern, Switzerland
Died	August 28, 1972(1972-08-28) (aged 61) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Resting place	Har Nebo Cemetery
Occupation(s)	Laboratory chemist, Soviet agent.
Criminal status	Deceased
Conviction(s)	Conspiracy to commit espionage (50 U.S.C. § 32)
Criminal penalty	30 years imprisonment

Harry Gold (born Henrich Golodnitsky, December 11, 1910 – August 28, 1972) was a Swiss-born American laboratory chemist who was convicted as a courier for the Soviet Union passing atomic secrets from Klaus Fuchs, an agent of the Soviet Union, during World War II. Gold served as a government witness and testified in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted and executed in 1953 for their roles. Gold served 15 years in prison.

Born in Bern, Switzerland, to parents from the Russian Empire, Gold immigrated to the US with his parents as a child at the age of four and settled in Philadelphia. During the Great Depression, he found work and finished his degree in chemistry at night. He returned to work as a clinical chemist after release from prison.