Died 1878-01-19.
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Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault 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.
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Born 21 July 1810 · Died 19 January 1878 · Q311115
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1878· 1 entry
1875· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1875).
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1871· 1 entry
His laboratory at Sèvres was destroyed and his son Alex-Georges-Henri Regnault killed, both as a result of the Franco-Prussian War
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1869· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1869).
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1855· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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1854· 4 entries
Was appointed director of the porcelain works at Sèvres, the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
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Career landmark: president (1854).
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Career landmark: director (1854–1871).
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Became the founding president of the Société française de photographie
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1853· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1853).
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1852· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1852).
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1851· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1848· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1848).
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1847· 1 entry
And inspired Charles Algernon Parsons to develop the steam turbine
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1843· 1 entry
Began compiling extensive numerical tables on the properties of steam
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1840· 1 entry
Was appointed the chair of chemistry of the École Polytechnique, and in 1841, he became a professor of physics in the Collège de France
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1835· 1 entry
Dichloromethane and carbon tetrachloride in 1839, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane in 1838 or 1840), and he was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of Lyon
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1830· 1 entry
Was admitted to the École Polytechnique, and in 1832 he graduated from the École des mines
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1810· 2 entries
Born 1810-07-21.
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(modern Aachen, Germany and at that time under French rule), he moved to Paris at the age of eight, following the death of his parents
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