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Categories: Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland), 19th-century American people, 1753 births, Fellows of the Royal Society, Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Thompson  Benjamin Thompson  Count Rumford  Benjamin, comte de Rumford  Benjamin, Count Rumford
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English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814) WordNet 3.0
English:
grape
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English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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. Wikipedia
American-born British physicist and inventor Wikidata
IS A
physicist
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Copley Medal
Order of the White Eagle
Rumford Medal
Companion of the Liberation
Fellow of the Royal Society
CHILD
Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
United Kingdom
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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DIFFERENT FROM
Benjamin Thompson
EDUCATED AT
Harvard College
FAMILY NAME
Thompson
FIELD OF WORK
optics
thermal physics
GIVEN NAME
Benjamin
Albert
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
National Gallery of Art
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Prussian Academy of Sciences
NOBLE TITLE
count
OCCUPATION
engineer
writer
dietician
physicist
entrepreneur
PLACE OF BIRTH
Avignon
Woburn
PLACE OF BURIAL
Auteuil Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
Buenos Aires
Auteuil
POSITION HELD
professor
RELIGION
Anglicanism
RESIDENCE
Broadway
SEX OR GENDER
male
SPOUSE
Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Thompson, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
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Benjamin Thompson
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Benjamin Thompson
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Wikidata Alias
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Benjamin, comte de Rumford, Benjamin, Count Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von Rumford, Benjamin Rumford Graf von, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Count Rumford, Count Rumford Benjamin Thompson, Reichsgraf von Rumford Benjamin, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

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