Nikolaus Vasilyevich Riehl was a German nuclear chemist of Russian-Jewish descent.
11 Facts About Nikolaus Riehl
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Nikolaus Riehl was a recipient of many former Soviet honors which he was awarded for his work in the Soviet Union.
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Nikolaus Riehl was born in Saint Petersburg, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1901.
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Nikolaus Riehl's father, Wilhelm Gottfried Riehl, was a German working in Russia as an engineer employed by Siemens; his mother, Elena Riehl was Russian and was of Jewish descent.
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Nikolaus Riehl was fluent in both German and Russian languages, and attended the German language schools in Russia.
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The HWA was interested and Nikolaus Riehl committed corporate resources to the task.
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Nikolaus Riehl had a hard time incorporating these three into his tasking at Plant No 12 on his uranium production tasking, as Born was a radiochemist, Catsch was a physician and radiation biologist, and Zimmer was a physicist and radiation biologist.
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Nikolaus Riehl then went, in 1950, to head an institute in Sungul, where he stayed until 1952.
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However, Nikolaus Riehl had already sent Born, Catsch, and Zimmer to the institute in December 1947.
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Nikolaus Riehl arrived in East Germany on 4 April 1955; however, by early June he had fled to West Germany.
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Nikolaus Riehl had a son who had died of natural causes and was buried in Germany.