Frederick Dominic Rossini was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics. He was born on July 18, 1899 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States. In 1920, at the age of twenty-one, Rossini entered Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, graduating with a BS in chemical engineering in 1925, followed by an MS degree in science in physical chemistry in 1926. His Ph.D. degree was awarded in 1928, after only 21 months of graduate work, even though he continued to serve as a teaching fellow throughout this entire period. He received the National Medal Of Science in 1976. 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.