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174 photometer known by his name, and his researches in heat and light are well known to men of science—so much so that the Royal Society perpetuates his name by awarding a Rumford medal for researches in physics. He was the founder of the Royal Institution, and a philanthropist. Rumford died on 21st August 1814, and lies buried in the Cimetière d'Auteuil, Paris.

The large and beautiful monument on his grave was destroyed by a shell during the Commune in 1871, but was restored in 1876, at the expense of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of the College of Harvard, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.