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Regnault (HENRI VICTOR a French)

HENRI VICTOR, a French scientist; born in Aix-la-Cha pelle, Prussia, July 21, 1810. A shopman in a Paris bazaar, he entered the Polytechnic School, and, after the two years' course, came out as a mining engineer.

He became a professor in Lyons, whence, in 1840, he was recalled to Paris as a member of the Academy of Sciences, in consequence of some important discoveries in organic chemistry. He filled chairs in the Polytechnic School and the College of France, and became in 1854 director of the imperial porcelain manufactory of Sèvres. He devoted himself to the determination of important physical data, the Royal Society of London awarded him their Rumford medal and the Copley medal (1869). He published an REHAN "Elementary Course in Chemistry" (1871). He died Jan. 20 , 1878.