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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.[1]
Attended the Erzherzog-Rainer-Realgymnasium, since renamed the de:Sigmund Freud Gymnasium, in honour of its most famous pupil.[1]
Timeline
edit1917 Matriculated with distinction[1]
1917/18 Military service in Serbia [2]; briefly interned in Cattaro*[3]
1918 Released from military service;
1918-20 studied Chemistry at Vienna Technical University, since renamed TU Wien[3]
1920 State examination[3]
1920 Studied physics and chemistry at the University of Vienna[1] The supervisor for his dissertation was Professor Alfons Franz Klemenc[1]
1923 Awarded D.Phil. degree[3]
1921 Demonstrator in the Chemistry laboratory[3]
1922-1929 Research Assistant and from 1924 Associate Lecturer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry[3]
1930 Qualification as a professor in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry[3]
1931 awarded the Rudolf Wegscheider prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[1]
1936 Awarded title of Associate Professor[1]
1937/38 Took sabbatical from University of Vienna and became Visiting Professor at Istanbul University[3]
His work in the 1930s included:-
- Theory of strong electrolytes, espectially in non-aqueous solutions[1]
- Thermodynamics of strong electrolytes, experiments with deuterium and heavy water[1]
1938 Dismissed from University of Vienna without notice on 'racial grounds' [1]
1938/39 Full Professor at Istanbul University[1]
Summer 1939 visited England to attend a scientific conference and remained in England.[2]
1939 Emigrated to Great Britain[3]
1939 worked at Bristol University [4]
late 1939 to January 1940 Interned as an Enemy Alien in the Isle of Man [5][6]
1940-1942 Lecturer at University of Bristol[3] and King's College, London[1]
1943-1947 Technical Consultant at International Alloys Ltd.[3]
1948 Naturalised as a British Subject [7]
1947-1974 Director at Fulmer Research Institute in Slough, Bucks working on thermodynamics and its applications, electrolysis and many other areas[3][1]
1968 Retired from Fulmer Research Institute but continued as a consultant to them.[1]
1969 Awarded the title of Hon.Professor by the Philosophy Faculty of Vienna University.[8] died 20 May 1974 London[3]
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."[9] Espresso Addict (talk) 21:35, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
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