Benjamin Thompson

Benjamin Thompson

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (German: Reichsgraf von Rumford; March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814) 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. He served as lieutenant-colonel of the King's American Dragoons, part of the British Loyalist forces, during the American Revolutionary War. After the end of the war he moved to London, where his administrative talents were recognized when he was appointed a full colonel, and in 1784 he received a knighthood from King George III. A prolific designer, Thompson also drew designs for warships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Thompson has received more than 408,435 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Thompson is the 166th most popular physicist (down from 146th in 2019), the 709th most popular biography from United States (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Physicist.

Benjamin Thompson was most famous for his work in the field of thermodynamics. His most notable contribution to the field was his discovery of the heat equation, also known as the first law of thermodynamics.