Nikolaus Riehl
Nikolaus Riehl | |
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| Born | Nikolaus Vasilyevich Riehl 1901 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (now Russia) |
| Died | 2 August 1990 (aged 88–89) |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Known for | Soviet program of nuclear weapons |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Nuclear chemistry |
| Institutions | Auergesellschaft Laboratory B in Sungulʹ Technical University of Munich |
| Thesis | Physik und technische Anwendungen der Lumineszenz: 8 (1929) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lise Meitner |
| Other academic advisors | Otto Hahn |
Nikolaus Vasilyevich Riehl (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Риль, romanized: Nikolai Vasilyevich Ril; 1901 — 2 August 1990) was a German nuclear chemist of Russian-Jewish descent. Before the fall of Berlin, he was director of the scientific headquarters of the Auergesellschaft AG, and was taken to the Soviet Union.
Riehl was one of many of the German nuclear physicist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, for which, he was recruited in 1945 until 1955 when he was released from the Soviet custody after accepting a technical position at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. He was a recipient of many former Soviet honors which he was awarded for his work in the Soviet Union.