Rumford Medal
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The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by the Royal Society for "outstanding contributions in the field of physics". The award is named in honour of British scientist Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumf
Count Rumford (Sir Benjamin Thompson), for whom the award is named.
Count Rumford
John Leslie by Ambroise Tardieu
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Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was name
Rumford Medal
…the successful construction of a new smoke-consuming and fuel-saving fire-grate, described in the Journal of the Society of Arts of May 12, 1854" 1856 Louis Pasteur French "For his discovery of the nature of racemic acid, and its relations to polarized light, and for the researches to which he was led by that…
Photograph by Nadar, 1895
The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole
Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist, 1878, by A Gerschel
Pasteur experimenting in his laboratory