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Frederick Dominic Rossini
Frederick Dominic Rossini
Pages 282-301
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but also in applier! science, notably in the petroleum industry, which, through the American Petroleum Institute, funclec!
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AT THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS (1928-50) In the micI-1920s Washburn, as eclitor-in-chief of the International Critical Tables, had become aware of a lack of reliable enthalpies of formation of many simple chemical compounds.
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the test of time en c! is still funciamental to present-clay thermochemistry is a token of the extreme care Rossini took not only in the calorimetric measurements but most especially in the separation en c!
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to succeec! him as director of the American Petroleum Institute Research Project 6 on hydrocarbons in petroleum.
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Beginning in 1944, the American Petroleum Institute Project 6 began to make available highly pure hydrocarbons (of certified purity) for spectral en c!
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on petroleum chemistry at the Catholic University of America in 1942. These endeavors eventually gave rise to his 1950 text Chemical Thermodynamics.
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American Petroleum Institute Projects 6 en c! 44 to Pittsburgh.
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, he was a member of the Committee on Physical Chemistry of that division from 1948 until 1962. When Rossini left Carnegie Tech in 1960, he entrusted American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44 to Bruno I
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annually to an outstanding American Catholic lay person, Rossini was the first Notre Dame faculty member to receive the aware! in the 83 years of the meciaT's existence.
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One of the advantages the Notre Dame chemistry department derived from this activity was that we were able to invite Romania's most renownec! chemist Costin D
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Chemical Technology of the National Research CounciT, Rossini became a member of the Executive Committee of the Office of Critical Tables in 1957. He continues!
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tociay. In 1967 Rossini left the deanship of the college to become vice-presiclent of research at Notre Dame, a newly createc!
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In 1965 he receiver! the John Price Wetherill Mecial of the Franklin Institute en c!
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in 1974. Besides being a member of the National Academy of Sciences Rossini was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Philosophical Society of Washington and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Chem ists, American Physical Society, Franklin Institute, and the Washington Academy of Sciences in addition to holding membership in a number of other organizations, including honorary membership in Phi Lambda Upsilon.
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Research Project "Data on Chemical Compounds." He chairec! the Gordon Conference on Petroleum Chemistry in 1944 en c!
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kindly made available press releases from Rice University; Dean Francis J Castellino arranged for press releases to be forwarded from the University of Notre Dame; and Dr.
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The Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances. The Assembly of a Selfconsistent Table of "Best" Values for the Heats of Formation of the Chemical Substances (Except Carbon Compounds Containing More Than Two Carbon AtomsJ, Including Heats of Transition, Fusion and Vaporization.
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Selected Values of the Properties of Hydrocarbons. Prepared as Part of the Work of American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44.
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Selected Values of Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrocarbons and Related Compounds, Comprising the Tables of the American Petroleum Institute Research Project 44 Extant as of December 1952. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press.
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