According to Wikipedia (q.v. link below)
Rumford is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the northwest of the large crater Oppenheimer, and to the east-southeast of Orlov.
This crater lies across the eastern rim of the larger satellite crater Rumford T. The perimeter is somewhat rounded and polygonal in shape, with an outward protrusion along the eastern edge. The inner walls have slumped along the eastern half to produce a shelf along the sides. The interior floor has a lower albedo than the surrounding terrain, and there is a small central ridge near the midpoint.
A 10' high bronze statue of Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, stands on an 11' high granite base. Benjamin Thompson is shown standing and wearing a military uniform with a long cape. He is holding a walking stick in his right hand and a scroll of paper in his left. The sculpture was created by Caspar Zumbusch and cast at the Royal Foundry. It was installed in front of the Woburn public on February 6, 1900.
The front of the base is inscribed:
BENJAMIN THOMPSON
COUNT RUMFORD
A small bronze plaque on front of base is inscribed in raised letters:
THIS STATUE
BY CASPAR ZUMBUSCH
A REPLICA OF THE ONE IN MUNICH
GERMANY
WAS GIVEN TO THE WOBURN PUBLIC LIBRARY
BY MARSHALL TIDD
1899
A larger bronze plaque on east side of base is inscribed in raised letters:
BENJAMIN THOMPSON
COUNT RUMFORD
BORN IN WOBURN MAR 26 1755
DIED IN PARIS AUG 21 1814
THE EARLIEST
SCIENTIFIC PHILANTHOPIST
HE DESIGNED PUBLIC GARDENS
AND BY MANY INVENTIONS
CONTRIBUTED TO THE COMFORTS
AND ENJOYMENTS
OF THE PEOPLE
HE PROVED THAT HEAT IS MOTION
AND HAD A GLIMPSE
OF THE GREAT DOCTRINE
KNOWN LATER AS
THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
IN EXILE
HE WON HIGH PLACES
OF TRUST AND COMMAND
Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, was born on March 26, 1753 in Woburn, MA. In his early years he was an amateur scientist with an interest in thermodynamics. He married a wealthy and well-connected heiress named Sarah Rolfe. They moved to Portsmouth, NH where, because of his wife's influence with the Governor, he was appointed a major in a New Hampshire Militia.
He supported the Loyalist during the American Revolution and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He became an advisor to the British leaders, General Gage and Lord George Germain. He gained prominence as a scientist for his experiments on the force of gunpowder which were published, in 1781, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. At the end of the war he was forced to leave America and move to London where he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and, in 1784, was knighted by King George III for his contributions to science which included experiments on gunnery and explosives, measurement of the specific heat of a solids, the insulating properties of fur, wool and feathers. Also, for the design of warships.
In 1785, Sir Benjamin Thompson moved to Bavaria where he became an aide-de-camp to the Prince-elector Charles Theodore. He continued his experiments on the relationship between friction and heat. He was able to transfer his findings into practical inventions. He improved the efficiency of chimneys, fireplaces and industrial furnaces, inventing the double boiler, a kitchen range, a drip coffeepot, a percolating coffee pot and credited with the invention of thermal underwear. His interest in the measurement of light led to the invention of the photometer and he introduced the concept of the standard candle, the forerunner of the candela as a unit of luminous intensity. Perhaps, he is best remembered for his design of the English Garden Park in Munich, Germany.
In 1779, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In 1789, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1791, Benjamin Thompson was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, with the title of Reichsgraf von Rumford (Count Rumford).
After 1799, he worked in both France and England. He established the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1799 and he endowed the Rumford medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Rumford professorship at Harvard University. In 1803, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Count Rumford settled in Paris and continued his scientific experiments until his death on August 21, 1814.