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Robert A. Pritzker Assistant Curator for Meteoritics and Polar Studies
Year Started: 
2010
Introduction: 

Philipp R. Heck is the Robert A. Pritzker Assistant Curator of Meteoritics and Polar Studies at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL at the Department of Geology. He is also a member of the Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry based at the University of Chicago.

As the curator in charge, Philipp R. Heck oversees the collection of meteorites at the recently established Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, the largest meteorite collection housed at a private institution with more than 8000 specimens and more than 2000 different meteorites. Other responsibilities include the curation of the gem, mineral, rock and economic geology collections.