Quotes:Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel

Zirkoff, Boris

Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel. German physicist, b. at Köslin, Pomerania; d. at Bonn, 1888. Studied at Berlin Univ.; took his degree at Halle, 1848, and was appointed prof, of Physics, 1850. Was later professor at Zürich Polytechnic and the Univ, of that city, and moved to Würzburg in 1867. Deserves the credit of having made thermodynamics a science; the kinetic theory of gases owes much to his research, as well as the development of electrolysis.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 525