13 Facts About Friedrich Tinner

In 2006, Tinner was revealed by the IAEA's investigators as the foreign director and technical head of the Libyan nuclear program.

In Libya, Friedrich Tinner ran the illicit nuclear experiments, using the expertise and technical information he received from his friend Khan, on behalf of the Libyan nuclear program.

Friedrich Tinner was known and connected in particular with gas centrifuge technology used for isotopic enrichment of uranium.

Friedrich Tinner was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1936 to a Swiss family.

Friedrich Tinner received his early and intermediate education there at Bern where he studied science and mathematics courses at a local school.

In 1961, Friedrich Tinner went to Belgium to attend a technical university to study engineering and attended Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Friedrich Tinner received his Master of Science in Nuclear engineering and took a government assignment in Vienna.

Friedrich Tinner, who was working at International Atomic Energy Agency as a uranium expert in the 1980s, resigned from his job and moved to Pakistan, along with his family, where he joined Khan's KRL in early 1980s.

The Swiss news agency reported that Friedrich Tinner had been working with Dr Abdul Qadir Khan in mid-1970s, using his expertise in vacuum technology to develop atomic centrifuges.

Friedrich Tinner resided with Khan and his family where, at ERL, Friedrich Tinner performed experiments under Khan's supervision.

However, in the 1980s, Friedrich Tinner was invited by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to join and head the Libyan nuclear program.

However, Friedrich Tinner again left for Pakistan and the program was dismantled.

In 1995, Friedrich Tinner again returned to Libya with the documentation provided by Khan.