Henri Regnault. Portrait of Henri Victor Regnault,French physicist and chemist (1810-78). Regnault worked with Liebig and succeeded Gay-Lussac as professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In 1841,he became professor of physics in the College de France. Regnault studied aliphatic chloro-compounds and discovered vinyl chloride and other industrially important materials. He published a chemistry treatise in 1847. In physics,Regnault improved techniques for determining the specific heats of solids,liquids,and devised a method for gases. He was able to show how real gases deviate from the ideal gas laws and he measured the velocity of sound | |
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