Rumford Premium
DOI: 10.1063/1.3058348
The Rumford Committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is seeking nominations for the biennial Rumford Premium. The prize is awarded, according to a letter from Count Rumford to the Academy written in July 1796, to “the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement … made … in any part of the Continent of America or in any of the American Islands … on Heat, or on Light”.