After a six-year exile for participating in the January 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, he studied in Berlin and Heidelberg.

Wróblewski was introduced to gas condensation in Paris by Professor Caillet at the École Normale Supérieure.

At Kraków he began studying gases and soon established a collaboration with Karol Olszewski.

While studying the physical properties of hydrogen, Wróblewski upset a kerosene lamp and was severely burned.

[5] In 1976, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) passed a decision to give the name of Wróblewski to one of the craters of the Moon in honour of the chemist.