Henri Victor Regnault

Victor Regnault ForMemRS
Regnault in the 1860s
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)
Scientific career
Fields	Thermodynamics

Henri Victor Regnault ForMemRS (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.