White Knight, Red Heat: The Many Lives of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that "Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produced," and indeed, Rumford was a peer of theirs, and arguably contributed more to the scientific canon, and yet is nowhere near as well known. Born in the British Americas as Benjamin Thompson, he died a count and a knight, and lived a fascinating, eventful life in between, founding the Royal Institution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633888673
• ISBN13: 9781633888678
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"