Benjamin Thompson
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Offizier, Politiker, Experimentalphysiker, Erfinder (1753-1814)
Key facts
- Born
- Benjamin Thompson , ( 1753-03-26 ) 26 March 1753, Woburn, Province of Massachusetts Bay , British America
- Died
- 21 August 1814 (1814-08-21) (aged 61), Auteuil, Paris , France
- Known for
- Thermodynamics
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1792) Rumford Medal (1800)
- Fields
- Physics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Electorate of Bavaria
- Place of birth
- Woburn
- Place of death
- Auteuil
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- Harvard College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Noble title
- Imperial Count
- Field of work
- optics
- Image
- Thomas Gainsborough - Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford (1753-1814) - 1922.1 - Fogg Museum.jpg
- Residence
- Broadway
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- member of
- Royal Society
- Commons category
- Benjamin Thompson
- date of birth
- 1753-03-26
- date of death
- 1814-08-25
- Commons gallery
- Benjamin Thompson
- different from
- Benjamin C. Thompson
- place of burial
- Auteuil Cemetery
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- writing language
- English language
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Benjamin Thompson, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Sir Benjamin Thompson, seit 1791 Reichsgraf von Rumford (englisch Count Rumford) (* 26. März 1753 in Woburn, Provinz Massachusetts Bay; † 21. August 1814 in Auteuil bei Paris), war ein britischer Offizier, Politiker, Experimentalphysiker, Waffentechniker und Erfinder. Er hatte bedeutenden Anteil an der Weiterentwicklung der Wärmelehre.
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