Hazel Rosotti (born 1 February 1930) is a British chemist and science writer.

Early life and education

Rossotti (née Marsh) left Millfield School in 1948 and completed her undergraduate and PhD at the University of Oxford. Her research considered the stability of metal-ion complexes, and she worked under the supervision of Robert Williams. 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.

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Career

In 1962 Rossotti was appointed a Fellow and Tutor at St Anne's College, Oxford, and retired in 1997. She was an advisor to Mary Archer. Rossotti is an Honorary Fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford.

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Books

She has published several science books, including:

Hazel Rossotti

1969 - Chemical Applications of Potentiometry

1970 - H2O

1971 - Metals

1975 - Air

1975 - Introducing Chemistry

1978 - Study of Ionic Equilibria

1985 - Why the World Isn't Grey

1993 - Fire

1998 - Diverse Atoms

2006 - Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806

References

British women chemists

British chemists

British women scientists

British science writers

1930 births

Living people

People educated at Millfield

Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford