Famous People with Name Nikolaus

Nikolaus Riehl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Nikolaus Riehl: was a German industrial nuclear chemist. He was head of the scientific headquarters of Auergesellschaft. When the Russians entered Berlin near the end of World War II, he was invited to the Soviet Union, where he stayed for 10 years. For his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, he was awarded a Stalin Prize, Lenin Prize, and Order of the Red Banner of Labor. When he was repatriated to Germany in 1955, he chose to go to West Germany, where he joined Heinz Maier-Leibnitz on his nuclear reactor staff at Technische Hochschule München (THM); Riehl made contributions to the nuclear facility Forschungsreaktor München (FRM). In 1961 he became an ordinarius professor of technical physics at THM and concentrated his research activities on solid state physics, especially the physics of ice and the optical spectroscopy of solids.

Nikolaus Poda Von Neuhaus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Nikolaus Poda Von Neuhaus: was an Austrian entomologist born in Vienna.He was the author of Insecta Musei Graecensis (1761), the first purely entomological work to follow the binomial nomenclature of Carolus Linnaeus.

Nikolaus Gerhaert            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Nikolaus Gerhaert: was a sculptor of Dutch origin, although aside from his sculptures, few details are known of his life.Gerhaert is considered the most influential northern European sculptor of the 15th century. He was born in Leiden, Holland (present day Netherlands) some

Nikolaus Stanec            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Nikolaus Stanec: is an Austrian chess master.He won the Austrian Chess Championship ten times in the period 1995–2005. He also represented Austria in the Chess Olympiads of 1994 and 1996, and in the European Team Chess Championship at Pula 1997.

Nikolaus Kraft            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Nikolaus Kraft: was a Czech cellist and composer. He played alongside Mozart and Anton Teyber on 12 April 1789 at Dresden on Mozart's Berlin journey and was a friend of Beethoven[1]. He was the son of Antonín Kraft, under whom he first studied. He then trained under Jean-Louis Duport and later wrote four Cello concertos. He also played the cello, and was the soloist for the premiere of Beethoven's Triple Concerto.