Quotes:Cailletet, Louis Paul

Zirkoff, Boris

Cailletet, Louis Paul. French ironmaster, b. at Châtillon-sur-Seine, Sept. 21, 1832; d. there Jan. 5, 1913. Worked in his father’s ironworks, and later was in charge of them. Animated by a love of scientific research, he succeeded, 1877, in liquefying oxygen, and later hydrogen and nitrogen as well. His experiments were carried out independently of those of Pictet along similar lines. Also interested in aeronautics. Author of a number of papers in the Comptes Rendus. Elected member of the Paris Academy.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 637