Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Physicist, Academic

1686 – 1736

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Who was Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit?

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a Dutch-German physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer, and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

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Born
May 24, 1686
Gdańsk
Ethnicity
  • Germans
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Lived in
  • Gdańsk
    (1686 - )
  • Amsterdam
    (1714 - )
Died
Sep 16, 1736
The Hague
Resting place
Kloosterkerk, The Hague

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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