He studied chemistry at the
University of Wrocław and the
Wrocław University of Science and Technology between 1947 and 1951. He became an assistant to Professor Kazimierz Gumiński at the Department of Physical Chemistry. He subsequently continued his scientific work at the newly established Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the
Jagiellonian University in Kraków until 1956 when he joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He obtained the title of professor in 1964. In 1951, he became a member of the
Polish Chemical Society. He then served as President of the organization between 1973–1979 and was appointed its honorary president in 1997. In 1973, he became a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in 1991 he obtained the full membership status. He was also a member of many international academies and societies including the
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle, the Deutsche Bunsen Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie,
German Chemical Society,
Federation of European Chemical Societies, European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) and the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. In the years 1989–1993, he served as President of the International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT). He was a
visiting professor at
Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, where he conducted lectures on irreversible thermodynamics (1971–1972), the
University of Hannover, and the Solid State Physics Institute of the
Max Planck Society in Stuttgart. He authored or co-authored several hundred papers and monographs. He served as the editor-in-chief of the
Polish Journal of Chemistry since 1991. He also was a member of editorial boards of
Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics,
Journal of Alloys and Compounds and
High Pressure Research. ==Awards==