[1] After the war, in 1946, Scherzer and his family moved to Romania, and he enrolled in the Chemistry Department of the University of Bucharest.
[2] In 1974, while working at the Research Division of the W.R. Grace Co., Scherzer got a master's degree in environmental science from Johns Hopkins University.
In 1963, Scherzer he moved to Vienna, Austria, where he did several months of post-doctoral research at the Technical University, that resulted in a scientific publication.
He worked there as principal scientist in the area of petroleum refining catalysts, and in 1990 received the Unocal Grand Prize for Creativity.
Scherzer is the author of the books “Octane-Enhancing Zeolitic FCC Catalysts: Scientific and Technical Aspects” (1990) and “Hydrocracking: Science and Technology” (coauthored with A. J. Gruia), 1996.