D'ARSONVAL, ARSÈNE. - French physician, physiologist and physicist, b. at Laporcherie (Haute Vienne) on 8 June 1851, d. there on 3 Dec. 1940.
Initiated into physiology by Bernard, he was preparator to him and to Brown-Sequard, and taught physiology at the Collège de France. He studied and introduced into therapy high-frequency currents ("darsonvalisation"). The rectangular-frame galvanometer, a compensation calorimeter, and several other instruments in current use in electrophysiology take their name from him. The French regard him as the founder of biological physics.
D'A. seems to have been an agnostic: he regarded the "scientific spirit" and the "religious spirit" as two independent variables that could coexist but without interfering with each other.
Bibliography3 worksWorks: Exposé de titres et travaux scientifiques, Paris 1888 (in collaboration with E. J. Marey and others); Traité de physique biologique,
BIBL.: Works: Exposé de titres et travaux scientifiques, Paris 1888 (in collaboration with E. J. Marey and others); Traité de physique biologique, ibid. 1901-1903. Studies: L. Chauvois, D'A., soixante-cinq ans à travers la science, Paris 1937; L. Delhomme, De Cl. Bernard à d'A., ibid. 1930.
Scremin, Luigi. “D'Arsonval, arsène.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1225. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arsonval-arsene.
MLA
Scremin, Luigi. “D'Arsonval, arsène.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1225. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arsonval-arsene.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec4_d_arsonval_arsene,
author = {Scremin, Luigi},
title = {D'Arsonval, arsène},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {1225},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/d-arsonval-arsene}
}
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