# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-pierre-christin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:32:43.259Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-pierre-christin"
name: "Jean-Pierre Christin"
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description: "Jean-Pierre Christin was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale was widely accepted and is still in use today."
tagline: "French astronomer"
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birthDate: "1683-05-31"
deathDate: "1755-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump