Jean Daniel Colladon

Abstract

DANIEL COLLADON, the celebrated physicist and engineer, died on June 30, at Cologny, near Geneva. Colladon was born at Geneva, December 15, 1802. He belonged to a Protestant family from Berry, which removed from France, in the middle of the sixteenth century, on account of religious persecutions, and found refuge in Calvin's town. Many a distinguished magistrate came from this family, amongst others the learned juris-consult, Germain Colladon.