Rollefson received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation concerned
Ebullioscopic constant measurement of mixed liquid media. He then completed his Ph.D. at the
University of California, Berkeley. Rollefson was a specialist in physical chemistry and studied the impact of
X-ray radiation on a variety of materials. Rollefson published a book with
Milton Burton in 1939:
Photochemistry and the Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions. Rollefson was a long-serving editor of
Annual Reviews in Physical Chemistry. ==References==