Biography: Heinz Gerischer

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Heinz Gerischer, born on March 31, 1919, in Wittenberg, Germany, studied Chemistry at the University of Leipzig from 1937 to 1946 (with some interruptions by the war) and received the Dr. rer. nat. degree of this university in 1946; his supervisor was Professor Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer. From 1946 to 1949 he was Assistant Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1949, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen as a Research Associate. He became a Senior Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart in 1954 and a Scientific Member of this institute in 1960. In 1956, he was appointed a Lecturer at the Technical University of Stuttgart.

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