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Other Names: Benjamin Thompson

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1753

Birth Place: Massachusetts

Death Date: 1814

Death Place: Paris

Affiliations: Unknown

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.

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