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Colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS, was an American-born British military officer, scientist and inventor. Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, he supported the Loyalist cause during the American War of Independence, commanding the King's American Dragoons during the conflict. After the war ended in 1783, Thompson moved to London, where he was recognised for his administrative talents and…
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Born 26 March 1753 · Died 21 August 1814 · Q44645
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“By 1775 Thompson had sailed for England, where under the auspices of the Secretary for the Colonies Lord George Germain he rose very rapidly in the service of the British government.”
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,047 times.
Published “Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 19,446 times.
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,004 times.
Published “Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses” in BMJ — cited 52,817 times.
Published “Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis” in Statistics in Medicine — cited 32,139 times.
Published “The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 31,749 times.
Published “CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 52,135 times.
“I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing.”
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Died 1814-08-21.
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Thompson separated from his second wife after three years, but he settled in Paris and continued his scientific work until his death on 21 August 1814.
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Married Marie-Anne Lavoisier, the widow of the great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier
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Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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Won Rumford Medal (1800).
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“An Inquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat Which Is Excited by Friction”
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Won Copley Medal (1792).
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1789).
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Born 1753-03-26.
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