Talk:Philipp Gross

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 * 2Al(solid) + AlCl3(vapour)3AlCl(vapour)
 * 2Al(solid) + AlCl3(vapour) 3AlCl(vapour)

He was the son of Berthold Gross, chief accountant of the Austrian North West Railway.

Attended the Erzherzog-Rainer-Realgymnasium, since renamed the de:Sigmund Freud Gymnasium, in honour of its most famous pupil.

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1917		Matriculated with distinction

1917/18	Military service in Serbia ; briefly interned in Cattaro*

1918		Released from military service;

1918-20 studied Chemistry at Vienna Technical University, since renamed TU Wien

1920		State examination

1920		Studied physics and chemistry at the University of Vienna The supervisor for his dissertation was Professor Alfons Franz Klemenc

1923		Awarded D.Phil. degree

1921		Demonstrator in the Chemistry laboratory

1922-1929	Research Assistant and from 1924 Associate Lecturer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry

1930		Qualification as a professor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

1931 awarded the Rudolf Wegscheider prize  of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

1936		Awarded title of Associate Professor

1937/38	Took sabbatical from University of Vienna and became Visiting Professor at Istanbul University

His work in the 1930s included:-

- Theory of strong electrolytes, espectially in non-aqueous solutions

- Acid-Base catalysis

- Thermodynamics of strong electrolytes, experiments with deuterium and heavy water

1938		Dismissed from University of Vienna without notice on 'racial grounds'

1938/39	Full Professor at Istanbul University

Summer 1939 visited England to attend a scientific conference and remained in England.

1939		Emigrated to Great Britain

1939 worked at Bristol University

late 1939 to January 1940 Interned as an Enemy Alien in the Isle of Man

1940-1942	Lecturer at University of Bristol and King's College, London

1943-1947	Technical Consultant at International Alloys Ltd.

1948           Naturalised as a British Subject

1947-1974	Director at Fulmer Research Institute in Slough, Bucks working on thermodynamics and its applications, electrolysis and many other areas

1968 Retired from Fulmer Research Institute but continued as a consultant to them.

1969 Awarded the title of Hon.Professor by the Philosophy Faculty of Vienna University. died 20 May 1974 London

Professor Denys Richardson of Imperial College, in his 1964 Hatfield Memorial lecture "So far as the conception of the process is concerned, the important points are the way Gross saw significance in a chance piece of information which others consistently neglected, how he deduced the existence of AlCl from the most basic of chemical principles, and how he then applied this in an utterly different context." Espresso Addict (talk) 21:35, 22 May 2018 (UTC)