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

Prometheus, 2023. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781633888678 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; bright clean jacket. A well kept copy. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford, was an American-born British physicist, government administrator, and a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. His investigations of heat overturned the theory that heat is a liquid form of matter and established the beginnings of the modern theory that heat is a form of motion. 222 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781633888678. Inventory No: dscf12159.

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