Afterwards, following the advice of his father, he travelled to England to complement his education and worked for several months in the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford.
After his return to Germany in 1891, he obtained the highest academic degree, the Habilitation, working under the direction of Adolf von Baeyer in Munich on the determination of the equilibrium of the Keto-enol tautomerism of ethyl acetoacetate.
In World War I, beginning in 1914, Meyer served as an officer in the artillery, however he was called in 1917 to carry out warfare research work in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society Institute in Berlin under the direction of Fritz Haber.
Among his many students and collaborators was Edmond H. Fischer, who obtained in 1992 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine he shared with Edwin G. Krebs.
A. van der Wijk[3] Sixteen articles about the alpha-amylase, the doctoral research topic of Edmond H. Fischer, were published of which one is cited here [4] Biographical references are to articles by Claus Priesner,[5] by Heinrich Hopff,[6] and by Edmond H. Fischer and Alfred Piguet [7] Literature by and about Kurt Heinrich Meyer is in the catalog of the German National Library.