Dr. Karl-Heinz Heise

Dr. Karl-Heinz Heise studied chemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and radiochemistry and chemical nuclear engineering at the former Dresden University of Technology. He then worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf (ZfK) of the Academy of Sciences in various areas of isotope production and labeling chemistry until the political change in 1989. In 1990, he was appointed head of the Department of Organic Tracer Chemistry of the Institute of Radiochemistry at the newly founded Leibnitz Research Center Dresden - Rossendorf, now the Helmholtz Center, which dealt with environmental chemical processes in the legacies of uranium mining in the GDR. Dr. Heise is an enthusiastic amateur numismatist and is primarily interested in the courtly medal art of the 19th century in Saxony.

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