Quotes:Régnault, Henry Victor

Zirkoff, Boris

Régnault, Henry Victor. French chemist, b. at Aix-la-Chapelle, July 21, 1810; d. Jan. 19, 1878. His early life was a struggle with poverty, and he worked in a drapery establishment in Paris until 1829. He then entered the École Polytechnique and continued studies in the Écoles des Mines. After studying under Liebig, he was appointed as 664 professor of chemistry at Lyons, and in 1841 as prof, of physics at the Collège de France. He engaged in important chemical and physical research and designed standard apparatus for various measurements. In 1854 he was appointed director of the famous porcelain Manufactory of Sèvres. The results of his research on the expansion of gases which he conducted there were destroyed in the Franco-Prussian war, in which he also lost his son, and he never recovered from this double blow. Most of his work is collected in Vols. 21 and 26 of the Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, pp. 663-664