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Zirkoff, Boris
Pictet, Raoul-Pierre. Swiss physicist, b. at Geneva, April 4, 1846; d. at Paris, July 27, 1929. Prof, of Physics in Geneva University, 1879-85. Investigated the condition of matter at very low temperatures and liquefied hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in 1877, almost at the same time with Cailletet. Founded in Berlin a factory for refrigeration machines and produced the thermos bottle. Wrote a number of scientific papers.
Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 662