Benjamin Thompson

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), (26 March 1753 - 21 August 1814), was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

Honours

• Knighted, 1784.
• Count of the Holy Roman Empire 1791
• The Rumford crater on the Moon is named for him.