Anders Celsius

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• Anders Celsius
• 1701-1744

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Celsius

• Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician
  who is famous for the temperature scale he
  developed. Celsius was born in Uppsala where he
  succeeded his father as professor of astronomy in
  1730. It was there also that he built Sweden's
  first observatory in 1741.
• Celsius' fixed scale for measuring temperature
  defines zero degrees as the temperature at which
  water freezes, and 100 degrees as the temperature
  at which water boils. This scale, an inverted
  form of Celsius' original design, was adopted as
  the standard and is still used in almost all
  scientific work.

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