[1] Born in Vienna in 1926, Ross left Austria with his parents only days before the outbreak of World War II.
[1] After completing his degree, he went on to perform doctoral research in physical chemistry, studying gas transport properties under the guidance of Isador Amdur at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.
[1] This led to postdoctoral work in gas thermometry and the statistical mechanical theory of irreversible processes with physical chemist John Kirkwood at Yale.
Ross began his faculty career as assistant professor in chemistry at Brown University in 1953.
[1] There, he launched a program to test the viscosity of liquids as a function of temperature and pressure with unprecedented precision.