Seweryn Chomet

Seweryn Chomet (6 May 1930 in Drohobycz, Poland – 24 July 2009 in London, England) was a physicist, author, journalist, historian, publisher, prolific translator of Russian scientific journals into English, and former visiting research fellow of King's College London.

Chomet grew up in Nazi-occupied Ukraine and arrived in London as a stateless refuge. Chomet was a successively a graduate, demonstrator (1956), and lecturer (1963) in the Physics Department of King's College London. He retired in 1987, returning part-time as a visiting lecturer.

Apart from his career in physics he was also a journalist, an author, and a translator of scientific works to and from Russian. In retirement, a chance enquiry into Prince Albert’s correspondence with Charles Wheatstone led him into another career, as an archival researcher and biographer of Victorian royalty. He died on 24 July 2009.

Books

As author or co-author

• D.N.A. Genesis of a Discovery (Ed.), Newman-Hemisphere Press 1994, London
• Count de Mauny – Friend of Royalty, Newman-Hemisphere Press, London
• Helena: A Princess Reclaimed, Begell House, New York, 1999 ISBN 1-56700-145-9
• Outrage at Auschwitz, Newman-Hemisphere Press, London 1990 ISBN 1-873106-00-9 / 1873106009ISBN 978-1-873106-00-6 / 9781873106006

• Applications of Group Theory in Quantum Mechanics by Mariia Ivanovna Petrashen, Eugenii Dmitreivich Trifonov, Seweryn Chomet, J. L. Martin. Hardcover, I P C Science & Technology Press, Limited, ISBN 0-592-05078-5
• Industrial Relations Bill: A Basis for Agreement? by Seweryn Chomet. Softcover, Newman Communications Ltd, ISBN 0-903012-00-6
• Nuclear Physics by Konstantin Nikiforovich Mukhin, D. A. Smith, Seweryn Chomet. Hardcover, MacDonald & Company (Publishers), Limited, ISBN 0-356-03415-1
• Solid State Electronics by Gérard Fournet, Seweryn Chomet. Hardcover, I P C Science & Technology Press, Limited, ISBN 0-592-02836-4
• Theory of Luminescence by Boris Ivanovich Stepanov, Viktor Pavlovich Gribkovskii, Seweryn Chomet. Hardcover, I P C Science & Technology Press, Limited, ISBN 0-592-05046-7