Frederick Rossini
Frederick Dominic Rossini (July 18, 1899 – October 12, 1990) was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
In 1920, at the age of twenty-one, Rossini entered
As a result of reading Lewis and Randall's classical 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances he wrote to
In 1932, Frederick Rossini, Edward W. Washburn, and Mikkel Frandsen authored "The Calorimetric Determination of the Intrinsic Energy of Gases as a Function of the Pressure." This experiment resulted in the development of the Washburn Correction for bomb calorimetry, a decrease or correction of the results of a calorimetric procedure to normal states.
In 1950, he published his popular textbook Chemical Thermodynamics.
In 1973, Dr. Rossini spent the spring academic quarter at Baldwin-Wallace College, in Berea Ohio, as the first distinguished professor to occupy the Charles J. Strosacker Chair of Science. The Baldwin-Wallace College student union was named after "the late Dr. strosacker, who was vice president of The Dow Chemical Company, [and] was a B-W trustee for 17 years. The college union was named in his honor in 1963."[2]
Awards
- In 1965 he became the recipient of the Laetare Medal.[3]
- In 1965 he received the John Price Wetherill Medal.
- In 1966 he received the William H. Nichols Medal.
- In 1971 he received the Priestley Medal.
- In 1977 he received the National Medal of Science for his "contributions to basic reference knowledge in chemical thermodynamics."[4]
References
- ^ Rossini, Frederic. (1950). Chemical Thermodynamics. New York: Wiley.
- ^ Harvey, James D. ed. "Dr. Rossini Named to Strosacker Chair." Pursuit 5, no. 4 (February 1973): 1.
- ^ Eliel, Ernest L., Frederick Dominic Rossini, Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Frederick Rossini – Biography, US National Academy of Sciences.
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