Rumford Prize This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Rumford_Prize".
In 1796, Benjamin Thompson, known as Count Rumford, made two separate gifts of $5,000 each to the Royal Society of London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to enable them to give awards every two years for outstanding scientific research on heat or light.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences awards the Rumford Prize; the Royal Society awards the Rumford Medal.
