Francesco Rossetti (Trento, 14 September 1833 – Padova, 20 April 1885) was an Italian experimental physicist.
Son of Giovanni Battista, Rossetti started his education in his natal town Trento.
[1] Among his fellow students there were Josef Stefan (future supervisor of Ludwig Boltzmann) and Ernst Mach.
Having obtained a year's leave by the Austrian government, he spent 1864 in Paris working in the laboratory of the physicist and chemist Henri-Victor Regnault.
His scientific activity mainly concerned electrostatics, electrochemistry, and thermometry of flames.