Vol. 25 No. 2
March-April 2003

The Rossini Lecture–A Brief History

In recognition of the contributions of Prof. F. D. Rossini to the work of the IUPAC Commission on Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry during his 39- year membership (1934—1973), the Commission decided, in 1973, to institute a "Rossini Lecture," to be given during the IUPAC International Conferences on Chemical Thermodynamics. The first lecture was given by Prof. Rossini himself at the Fourth Conference held in August 1975 in Montpellier, France. Rossini lecturers were appointed by the Commission on Thermodynamics until 2002, but, as a result of the restructuring of IUPAC, they will be elected in the future by the Board of Directors of the newly established International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics. The text of these lectures is published in Pure and Applied Chemistry (see table) and in the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics (see table below).

Rossini Lectures, 1975-2003

1975 Frederick D. Rossini, Montpellier, France, 26-30 Aug 1975
JCT 1976, 8, 803-834

1977 Henry A. Skinner, Ronneby, Sweden, 23-26 Aug 1977
JCT 1978, 10, 309-320

1980 Stig A. Sunner, Merseburg, Germany, 26-29 Aug 1980
(died before his Lecture)

1982 Edgar F. Westrum (University of Michigan, USA), London, UK, 6-10 Sep 1982
PAC 1983, 55(3), 539-551; JCT 1983, 15, 305-325.

1984 Maxwell L. McGlashan (University College, London, UK), ICCT, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 13-17 Aug 1984
PAC 1985, 57(1), 89-103; JCT 1985, 17, 301-319.

1986 Ernst-Ulrich Franck (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany), 9th ICCT, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-18 Jul 1986
PAC 1987, 59(1), 25-34; JCT 1987, 19, 225-242

1988 Kenneth S. Pitzer (UC Berkeley, CA, USA), 10th ICCT, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 29 Aug — 3 Sep 1988
PAC 1989, 61(6) p. 979-988; JCT 1989, 21, 1-17

1990 Gerhard M. Schneider (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), 11th ICCT, Como, Italy, 26-31 Aug 1990
PAC 1991, 63(10), 1313-1326; JCT 1991, 23, 301-326.

1992 John S. Rowlinson (Oxford, UK), 12th ICCT, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 16-21 Aug 1992
PAC 1993, 65(5), 873-882; JCT 1993, 25, 449-461.

1994 Hendrick C. Van Ness (Renseelaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA), 13th ICCT, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 17-22 Jul 1994
PAC 1995, 67(6), 859-872; JCT 1995, 25-27, 113-134.

1996 Robert A. Alberty (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA), 14th ICCT, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, 25-30 Aug 1996
PAC 1997, 69(11), 2221-2230; JCT 1997, 29, 501-516.

1998 Stanley I. Sandler (University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA), 15th ICCT, Porto, Portugal, 26 Jul - 1 Aug 1998
PAC 1999, 71(7), 1167-1181; JCT 1999, 31, 3-25.

2000 William A. Wakeham (University of Southampton, UK), 16th ICCT, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 6-11 Aug 2000
JCT 2001, 33, 1623-1642; PAC 2000, 72(10) includes other presentations, pp. 1799-2082.

2002 John M. Prausnitz (UC Berkeley, CA, USA), 17th ICCT, Rostock, Germany, 28 Jul - 2 Aug 2002