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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Victor Regnault has received more than 103,512 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Henri Victor Regnault is the 238th most popular chemist (up from 240th in 2019), the 1,261st most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,270th in 2019) and the 45th 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 238 out of 602. Before him are Luis Federico Leloir, Charles J. Pedersen, Robert Bruce Merrifield, Roger D. Kornberg, Antoine Jérôme Balard, and Johan August Arfwedson. After him are Geoffrey Wilkinson, Mária Telkes, William Hyde Wollaston, Elias James Corey, Thomas Graham, and Ryōji Noyori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 22. Before him are Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Fanny Elssler, Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Francesco Maria Piave, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Karl Richard Lepsius. After him are Asa Gray, Ferenc Erkel, Constant Troyon, Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1878, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 19. Before him are Ernst Heinrich Weber, Antoine César Becquerel, Elias Magnus Fries, Nikolay Nekrasov, Queen Cheorin, and Angelo Secchi. After him are Mariam Baouardy, Mercedes of Orléans, Carlo Blasis, Władysław Tarnowski, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, and Carl von Rokitansky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 1,261 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodor Busse (1897), August von Wassermann (1866), Klaus Störtebeker (1360), Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (1684), Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413), and Heinrich Barth (1821). After him are Matthias Sammer (1967), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896), Marita Koch (1957), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), Gerda Christian (1913), and Hans Holbein the Elder (1465).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Henri Victor Regnault ranks 45. Before him are Hennig Brand (1630), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), Franz Karl Achard (1753), and Hartmut Michel (1948). After him are Andreas Libavius (1555), Feodor Lynen (1911), Joachim Sauer (1949), Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), and Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709).

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