[1] Rossotti (née Marsh) left Millfield School in 1948 and completed her undergraduate and PhD at the University of Oxford.
[12] In 1974, Rossotti nominated French artist and photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson for an honorary doctorate at the University of Oxford.
To mark this award, Cartier-Bresson gifted Rossotti a silver gelatine print of a 1938 photograph of 'Sunday on the Banks of the River Seine'.
[14] Rossotti published numerous science books, on diverse topics from chemistry to colour, fire and Greece.
Oliver Sacks remarked that Rossotti was a born teacher and writer, 'incapable of writing a dull word'.