| Last name | Rumford |
| Display name | Count Rumford |
| Other names | Benjamin Thompson |
| Birth date | 1753 |
| Death date | 1814 |
| Birth place | Massachusetts |
| Death place | Paris |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | review |
| Bio notes | American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th c revolution in thermodynamics. Served in Loyalist forces during the American Revolution, afterwards moved to England and received a knighthood in 1784. Entered government in Bavaria and was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791. Author of essays referred to in Eddy biography. |