Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
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Invented the mercury thermometer and the temperature scale that still bears his name, mostly because his instruments were so reliably consistent that scientists actually trusted them to compare notes.
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic. Fahrenheit significantly improved the design and manufacture of thermometers; his were accurate and consistent enough that different observers, each with their own Fahrenheit thermometers, could reliably compare temperature measurements with each other. Fahrenheit is also credited with producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers, which were more accurate than the spirit-filled the…
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