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Rumford Premium

AUG 01, 1962

DOI: 10.1063/1.3058348

Physics Today

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”.

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Volume 15, Number 8

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