Nikolaus Riehl

Nikolaus Riehl
Born	Ril, Nikolai Vasily'evich (Риль, Никола́й Васи́льевич) 1901 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died	2 August 1990 (aged 89 or 90) Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Germany
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin
Known for	Soviet program of nuclear weapons
Awards	Stalin Prize (1949) Lenin Prize (1949) Hero of Socialist Labor (1949)
Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear chemistry
Institutions	Auergesellschaft AG Laboratory B in Sungulʹ Technical University of Munich
Thesis	Physik und technische Anwendungen der Lumineszenz: 8 [1]  (1929)
Doctoral advisor	Lise Meitner
Other academic advisors	Otto Hahn

Nikolaus Vasilyevich Riehl (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Риль; 1901—2 August 1990) was a German nuclear chemist of Russian-Jewish descent.^[2] 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.