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François Marcet (1803-1883) was an Anglo-Swiss physicist known for the invention of a steam globe used to measure vapour pressure.

Life
Son of Jane Marcet and Alexander Marcet, and grew up in London.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1302.htm (retrieved 25 Feb 2017)

worked as a professor of physics in Geneva (which institution?)

member of city council

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/govi/pharmaz/2009/00000064/00000012/art00012?crawler=true

known for his boiler experiment

Recherches sur certaines circonstances qui influent sur la température du point d'ébullition des liquides (1842)

Marcet, François. 1842. "Recherches sur certaines circonstances qui influent sur la température du point d'ébullition des liquides." Bibliothèque universelle, new ser., 38:388-411.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mDTcVyvc3WMC&pg=PA388&lpg=PA388&dq=Recherches+sur+certaines+circonstances+qui+influent+sur+la+temp%C3%A9rature+du+point+d%27%C3%A9bullition+des+liquides&source=bl&ots=mxjEzgZ_Lr&sig=EvavcrO9L0wcl9hvFgXJwD8L-zQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK6Irc3avSAhVrC8AKHT3hDtIQ6AEIHzAB#v=onepage&q=Recherches%20sur%20certaines%20circonstances%20qui%20influent%20sur%20la%20temp%C3%A9rature%20du%20point%20d%27%C3%A9bullition%20des%20liquides&f=false

pioneer in the field of superheating.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JHtPAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT35&ots=O_BJzpD3O_&dq=francois%20marcet%20physicist&pg=PT35#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/boiling/superheating.htm (retrieved 24th February 2017)

Worked with Auguste Arthur de la Rive

specific heat of diamond

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0QYTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=francois+marcet+physicist&source=bl&ots=DnlnpoLjIc&sig=VG1_BnEAeOUqPSDSzKjUYWBxsQ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsvOOv3qvSAhUHBsAKHeXaCtwQ6AEIMTAE#v=onepage&q=francois%20marcet%20physicist&f=false

Recherches sur l'évaporation (1853)

Cours de physique expérimentale, dans lequel les élémens de cette science sont mis à la portée des commençans (1832)

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Cours_de_physique_exp%C3%A9rimentale_dans_le.html?id=bAA7AAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y

relationship between pressure and temperature of saturated steam in equilibrium, providing experimental confirmation of the Antoine equation

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EQZoS9CRvs0C&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=francois+marcet+physicist&source=bl&ots=jur9UoneAA&sig=PL8T7pzUjPmdCMgTvI6JDbBmLsM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL4KXY4KvSAhWlIsAKHRXOAXo4ChDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=francois%20marcet%20physicist&f=false

piece of apparatus, the Marcet boiler, is named for him.

http://rita.udistrital.edu.co:23604/Documentos/Manuales/ciencias_termicas/Manual%20Caldera%20Marcet.pdf

http://www.tecquipment.com/Datasheets/TD1006_1015.pdf (retrieved 25th February 2017)

http://solution.com.my/pdf/HE169(A4).pdf (retrieved 25th February 2017)