High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 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...