Aleksander Jerzy Groszek: a pioneer in adsorption calorimetry

Aleksander Jerzy Groszek was born in Wilno, Poland (now Lithuania) on 17th February 1927. His education in Poland finished abruptly in Warsaw with the start of the Second World War. In 1939 his family moved to Rohatyn, before they were deported to Kazakhstan by the Russians in April 1940. Later in the War, after Germany marched on Russia, Aleksander applied to join the Free Polish Army and so he and his family became part of the evacuation of Polish troops from Russia. They were transferred to a displaced persons camp in Persia, where Aleksander was denied military service as he was too young, so he completed his secondary education in Teheran before being moved to Beirut where he attended a French university and obtained national certificates of higher education leading to a 'License' diploma in Sciences. In 1947 his family moved to the UK, where, he was offered a place at London University to study Chemistry, graduating in 1951. That same year he took up a position as Chemist at Abril ...