For the last 35 years and more of his life, he formed a partnership and marriage with Christine, his second wife and stepmother to his two sons and one daughter, Julian, William and Ann.
He often spoke with great pride about the beauty and architectural splendour of Drohobycz but retained bitter memories of the anti-Semitism that was prevalent in Poland at that time.
After the war he escaped to England, where he was soon joined by his parents who set up a medical practice in Stamford Hill in North London.
[citation needed] While a postgraduate student he had been witness to the behind-the-scenes events of one of the greatest scientific adventures of modern time.
Maurice Wilkins was the leader of the King's biophysics team whose work made a major contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA which ultimately became the bedrock of all modern genetics, including the mapping of the human genome.
[1] He was justifiably proud to be associated with King's DNA 'legends' and in the 1993 organised a highly successful 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1953 discovery and subsequently published a sought after book of the proceedings.
[citation needed] With Christine, his partner who would later become his wife, he even found time to stage conferences for audiences as diverse as funeral directors and dentists, and publish several niche books such as Why Is British Architecture So Lousy?
[citation needed] Soon after was another hugely forensic literary effort as he uncovered the secrets of how a Frenchman conned his way into 19th-century royal circles by pretending to be a count.
When his consultant recently told him he had a serious illness, Chomet's main concern was whether he would have time to finish writing his current book, fortunately he managed it.
He was completely adamant about this and drew on the expert knowledge of religious scholars, both Jews and others, to explore why a Carmelite convent had chosen to build on the site of Auschwitz.