Friedrich Tinner Scientist

Friedrich Tinner, also known as Fred Tinner; (born 1937), is a Swiss nuclear engineer and a long-associated friend of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan— Pakistan's former top scientist— and connected with the Khan nuclear network trafficking in the proliferation of nuclear materials and centrifuge designs to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. In 2006, Tinner was revealed by the IAEA's investigators as the foreign director and technical head of the Libyan nuclear program. In Libya, Tinner ran the illicit nuclear experiments, using the expertise and technical information he received from his friend dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, in behalf of Libyan nuclear program. According to Khan, Tinner was the former researcher of the Kahuta Research Laboratories during the 1970s, where he worked there as a research scientist under the supervision of Dr. A.Q. Khan. Tinner is known and has been connected in particular with gas centrifuge technology used for isotopic enrichment of uranium.

Personal facts

Friedrich Tinner
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1937
Birth place
Switzerland , Bern
Nationality
Switzerland
Citizenship
Switzerland
Residence
Switzerland , Bern
Education
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Known for
Nuclear proliferation
Khan Research Laboratories
Libya and weapons of mass destruction

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Scientist

Field of study
Nuclear engineering
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Friedrich Tinner on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/comments/ml040770046.pdf