# Rumford Medal

> an award bestowed by Britain's Royal Society every alternating year for an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter

**Wikidata**: [Q285167](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285167)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumford_Medal)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/rumford-medal


## References

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