Benjamin Thompson
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 210 years ago |
Date of birth | March 26,1753 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Woburn |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Date of died | August 21,1814 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Spouse | Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier |
Children | Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford |
Job | Physicist |
Inventor | |
Books | Collected Works of Count Rumford: Practical Applications of Heat |
Essays political, economical and philosophical | |
The complete works of Count Rumford. | |
Philosophical Papers: Being a Collection of Memoirs Dissertations, and Experimental Investigations, Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy and Mechanics: | |
Rumford Fireplaces and how They are Made | |
Collected Works of Count Rumford: Devices and techniques | |
Complete Works. Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
Known for | Thermodynamics |
Parents | Ruth Simonds |
Benjamin Thompson | |
Awards | Copley Medal |
Rumford Medal | |
Education | Harvard College |
Nationality | American |
British | |
German | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 619144 |
Benjamin Thompson Life story
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS was a British physicist, born in Colonial Massachusetts, and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolution in thermodynamics.