Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Physicist and inventor
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction. Fahrenheit invented thermometers accurate and consistent enough to allow the comparison of temperature... Wikipedia
Born: May 24, 1686, Gdańsk, Poland
Died: September 16, 1736 (age 50 years), The Hague, Netherlands
Known for: Precision thermometry; Alcohol thermometer; Mercury-in-glass thermometer; Fahrenheit scale; Fahrenheit hydrometer
Parents: Concordia Schumann and Daniel Fahrenheit