Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin Thompson was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States on March 26th, 1753 and is the Physicist. At the age of 61, Benjamin Thompson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Sir Benjamin Thompson, FRS (Germany) was born in 1753 and died on August 21, 1814), a British physicist and explorer whose contributions to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century thermodynamic revolution.
During the American Revolutionary War, he served as lieutenant-colonel of the King's American Dragoons, a part of British Loyalist forces.
After the war's end, he returned to London, where his administrative abilities were well-known when he was appointed a full colonel, and King George III granted him a knighthood in 1784.
Thompson, a prolific designer, also created warships.
He later moved to Bavarian Army Minister and re-organizing the army, and, in 1791, was named a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
Early years
Thompson was born in rural Woburn, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1753; his birthplace is preserved as a museum. He was mainly educated at the village school, but he would often walk almost ten miles to Cambridge with the older Loammi Baldwin to Harvard College's Professor John Winthrop. He was apprenticed to John Appleton, a merchant of nearby Salem, at the age of 13. Thompson excelled at his occupation, and when meeting with refined and well-educated people for the first time, they shared many of their characteristics, including an interest in science. Thompson, who was recovering in Woburn in 1769 from an accident, undertook laboratory tests to discover the nature of heat and began to correspond with Loammi Baldwin and others. He worked for a few months as a Boston shopkeeper and then apprenticed himself to a Woburn doctor, eventually failing to become a doctor.
Thompson's prospects were dim in 1772, but in that year, they changed abruptly. Sarah Rolfe (née Walker), a wealthy and well-connected heiress, charmed, and married him. Her father was a minister, and her late husband's remains buried her home in Concord, New Hampshire, which was later called Rumford. They migrated to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and through his wife's influence with the governor, they were appointed a major in the New Hampshire Militia. In 1774, they had their son (also called Sarah) was born.
Later life
He divided his time between France and England after 1799. Sir Joseph Banks established the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1799 with Sir Joseph Banks. Sir Humphry Davy was chosen by the pair as the first lecturer. As a result of Davy's pioneering studies, the institute flourished and became internationally renowned. Michael Faraday, his assistant, established the Institute as a world-renowned science laboratory and is also well-known for its series of public lectures popularizing science. The Royal Institution Christmas lectures continue to be popular, and television viewers of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures draw large audiences.
Thompson endowed the Rumford Medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the endowment of the Rumford Chair of Physics at Harvard University. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1883.
He married Marie-Anne Lavoisier, the widow of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, in 1804. Sarah, his American wife, who died at the time of the American Revolution, had died in 1792.) Thompson was divorced after three years, but he returned to Paris and continued his scientific work until his death on August 21, 1814. Thompson is buried in Auteuil, Paris's little cemetery, just across the street from Adrien-Marie Legendre. Countess Rumford inherited his name after his father's marriage, Sarah Thompson, inherited his name on his death.