The New Student's Reference Work/Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de

Réaumur (rā′ō′mür′), René Antoine Ferchault de, a prominent man of science in France during the first half of the 18th century, was born in 1683, and died in 1757. He is principally remembered as having devised the thermometric scale which goes by his name, namely, that in which the temperature interval between melting ice and boiling water is divided into 80 degrees. See Celsius, Fahrenheit and Thermometer.