Hazel Rossotti Explained

Honorific Prefix:Dr
Birth Name:Hazel Marsh
Birth Date:1930 2, df=y
Education:Millfield School
Alma Mater:University of Oxford
Thesis Title:Some investigations of organic reagents for metals
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Thesis Year:1954
Doctoral Advisor:Robert Williams
Known For:Chemistry; popular science writing
Spouse:Francis Rossotti (1927–2019)

Hazel Rossotti (1 February 1930 – 24 December 2023) was a British chemist and science writer.[1]

Early life and education

Rossotti (née Marsh) left Millfield School in 1948 and completed her undergraduate and PhD at the University of Oxford.[2] [3] [4] Her research considered the stability of metal-ion complexes, and she worked under the supervision of Robert Williams.[5] [6] [7] In 1952 she married fellow chemist Francis Rossotti, a fellow graduate student, at St Peter-in-the-East, now part of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.[8]

Career

In 1962 Rossotti was appointed a Fellow and Tutor in chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford, and retired in 1997.[9] She was an advisor to Mary Archer, and an Emeritus Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.[10]

Rossotti held a long-standing passion for photography, and became known as an accomplished photographer.[11] She specialised in black and white portraits, often of scientists and other colleagues.[12] In 1974, Rossotti nominated French artist and photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson for an honorary doctorate at the University of Oxford. To mark this award, Cartier-Bresson gifted Rossotti a silver gelatine print of a 1938 photograph of 'Sunday on the Banks of the River Seine'. This print is now held in the Bodleian libraries.[13] In 1997, Rossotti designed and made the stained glass panels in the library building, Hartland house. [14]

Books

Rossotti published numerous science books, on diverse topics from chemistry to colour, fire and Greece. Oliver Sacks remarked that Rossotti was a born teacher and writer, 'incapable of writing a dull word'.[15]

References

  1. https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/dr-hazel-rossotti-1930-2023/
  2. Davies . John . Distinguished Old Millfieldians . Old Millfieldian Society Chronicle . 2012 . 12 . 21 July 2023.
  3. Web site: Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806. www.authorhouse.co.uk. 2018-05-30.
  4. Book: St Hugh?s: One Hundred Years of Women?s Education in Oxford. Griffin, Penny. 9781349077250. London. 240. 1004389700. Griffin. Penny. 1986-06-30.
  5. Hill. H. A. O.. Thomson. A. J.. 2016-08-24. Robert Joseph Paton Williams MBE. 25 February 1926 — 21 March 2015. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. en. 62. 541–570. 10.1098/rsbm.2016.0020. 0080-4606. free.
  6. Rossotti. Hazel. 2010-09-02. Some relationships among the stabilities of metal complexes. Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas. en. 75. 7. 763–768. 10.1002/recl.19560750707. 0165-0513.
  7. Brewer. Leo. 1962-05-18. The Determination of Stability Constants and Other Equilibrium Constants in Solution. Francis J. C. Rossotti and Hazel Rossotti. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961. xiv + 425 pp. $12.50. Science. en. 136. 3516. 643–644. 10.1126/science.136.3516.643. 95255460. 0036-8075.
  8. News: St Hugh's College, Oxford - Chronicle 1952-1953. Issuu. 2018-05-30. en.
  9. Web site: The Ship. 2012. St Anne's College, Oxford. 2018-05-30. 24 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160424100554/http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/THE_SHIP-2013-web.pdf. dead.
  10. Web site: St Anne's College, Oxford > About the College > Emeritus, Honorary, & Supernumerary and Senior Research Fellows. www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk. en. 2018-05-30. 14 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160714143434/http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/people/emeritus-honorary-supernumerary-and-senior-research-fellows. dead.
  11. Web site: One Hundred Years of Engineering Science at Oxford, 1908-2008. www.soue.org.uk.
  12. Web site: Goodenough rules. Bea. Perks2014-12-23T00:00:00+00:00. Chemistry World.
  13. Web site: Collection: Silver gelatine print by Henri Cartier-Bresson and associated documents | Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
  14. Web site: What’s in a name? | St Anne's College, Oxford. 14 December 2023.
  15. https://www.npr.org/2010/12/09/131936824/oliver-sacks-on-his-burning-love-of-fire
  16. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. Chemical applications of potentiometry.. 1969. Van Nostrand. 978-0442070489. London. 36088.
  17. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. H2O. 1970. Oxford University Press. Pugh, Margaret.. 978-0199180059. London. 30273177.
  18. Web site: Metals :: Hazel Rossotti :: ISBN 0199180091 :: Oxford University Press 1971 :: OBNB, the Open British National Bibliography. obnb.uk. en. 2018-05-30.
  19. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. Air. Phillips. Douglas. Dear. Brian. Dear. Constance. 1973. London [etc.] : Oxford University Press. 978-0199180264. English.
  20. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. Introducing chemistry. 1975. Penguin. 978-0140218640. Harmondsworth. 2020201.
  21. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. The study of ionic equilibria : an introduction. 1978. Longman. 978-0582441750. London. 3517031.
  22. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. Colour. 1984. 1983. Princeton University Press. 978-0691083698. Princeton, N.J.. 10778491. registration.
  23. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. Fire. 1993. Oxford University Press. 978-0198557227. Oxford. 26163110. registration.
  24. Book: Rossotti, Hazel. Diverse atoms : profiles of the chemical elements. 1998. Oxford University Press. 978-0198558156. New York. 37254363.
  25. Book: Marcet, Jane Haldimand. Chemistry in the schoolroom, 1806 : selections from Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on chemistry. 2006. AuthorHouse. Rossotti, Hazel.. 978-1425905347. Bloomington, Ind.. 70139772.
  26. News: The woman that inspired Faraday. Chemistry World. 2018-05-30. en.

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