The Royal Porcelain Factory at Sèvres
1851 · salted paper print from calotype negative
Image: 35.1 x 43.9 cm (13 13/16 x 17 5/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Henri Victor Regnault 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.
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