He was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1980 in "recognition of his discovery of the quantum of circulation in superfluid helium and his development of new techniques for precise measurements within liquid helium."
In 1858 he was awarded the Rumford Medal for his work on light and in 1863 he became a professor at the Faculty of Paris, succeeding Despretz Caesar as the associate chair of experimental physics.
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