CHEMIST

Henri Victor Regnault

1810 - 1878

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Henri Victor Regnault (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Victor Regnault is the 246th most popular chemist (down from 238th in 2019), the 1,032nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,261st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Chemist.

Henri Victor Regnault was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of the Greek gods.

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Among chemists, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 246 out of 602. Before him are Hennig Brand, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Friedrich Sertürner, Nicolas Leblanc, Walter Gilbert, and Arieh Warshel. After him are Luis Federico Leloir, Mario J. Molina, Kary Mullis, Emil Abderhalden, Jacques Dubochet, and Ryōji Noyori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 17. Before him are Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Otto Nicolai, Ernst Kummer, and Fanny Elssler. After him are Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Karl Richard Lepsius, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Princess Pauline of Württemberg, and Nikolay Pirogov. Among people deceased in 1878, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 17. Before him are George V of Hanover, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Angelo Secchi, Władysław Tarnowski, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Antoine César Becquerel. After him are Nikolay Nekrasov, Queen Cheorin, Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Carl von Rokitansky, and George Gilbert Scott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 1,032 out of 7,253. Before him are Joseph Wirth (1879), Günther Prien (1908), Anna Magdalena Bach (1701), Leopold I, Margrave of Austria (940), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), and Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783). After him are John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604), Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria (1831), August Kopff (1882), and Boris Becker (1967).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 42. Before him are Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Joachim Frank (1940), Hartmut Michel (1948), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Hennig Brand (1630), and Friedrich Sertürner (1783). After him are John Polanyi (1929), Fritz Strassmann (1902), Emil Erlenmeyer (1825), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Joachim Sauer (1949), and Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802).

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