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Henri Victor Regnault
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French physicist (1810–1878)
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- Born
- 1810
- Died
- 1878
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Elements of chemistry for the use of colleges, academies, and schools
- [Regnault-Strecker's] Kurzes lehrbuch der chemie
- Relation des expériences entreprises par ordre de monsieur le ministre des travaux publics, et sur la proposition de la Commission Centrale des Machine a Vapeur, pour déterminer les principales lois et les données numériques qui entrent dans le calcul des machines a vapeur
- Elements of Chemistry
- M. V. Regnault's... Schule der Chemie
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Key facts
- Born
- Henri Victor Regnault , ( 1810-07-21 ) 21 July 1810, Aix-la-Chapelle , France
- Died
- 19 January 1878 (1878-01-19) (aged 67), Paris , France
- Alma mater
- École Polytechnique
- Children
- Henri Regnault
- Awards
- Rumford Medal (1848) Copley Medal (1869) Matteucci Medal (1875)
- Fields
- Thermodynamics
- Thesis
- Recherches relatives à l'action de la vapeur d'eau à une haute température sur les métaux et sur les sulfures métalliques (1836)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Victor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Aachen
- Place of death
- Paris
- Child
- Henri Regnault
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- Mines ParisTech
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- photography
- Image
- Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg
- Residence
- Aachen
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
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- Henri Victor Regnault
- date of birth
- 1810-07-21
- date of death
- 1878-01-19
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- Henri Victor Regnault
- name in native language
- Henri Victor Regnault
- student
- Hippolyte Fizeau
- influenced by
- Justus von Liebig
- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- P8168
- 68HC05
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Encyclopedic overview
Henri Victor Regnault ForMemRS ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi viktɔʁ ʁəɲo]; 21 July 1810 – 19 January 1878) was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his lifetime as Victor Regnault.
Biography
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