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Anders Celsius (27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable obse...
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Celsius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Celsius (also historically known as centigrade ) is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who developed a similar temperature scale two years be...
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Anders Celsius was born at the 27th of January 1701 in Uppsala. After his education time in this town north of Stockholm he became professor for astronomy already in 1730. At this time there was no larger observatory anywhere in Sweden.
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Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented the Celsius temperature scale, the most widely used in the world today. Celsius was primarily an astronomer and did not even start working on his temperature scale until shortly before his death.
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Born: 27-Nov-1701; Birthplace: Uppsala, Sweden; Died: 25-Apr-1744; Location of death: Uppsala, Sweden; Cause of death: Tuberculosis; Remains: Buried, Gamla Uppsala Kyrkogård, Uppsala, Sweden; ... Father: Nils Celsius; ... Units of Measure temperature; Lunar Crater Celsius; Swedish Ancestry;
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Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1701, where he succeeded his father as professor of astronomy in 1730. It was there that he built Sweden's first observatory in 1741, the Uppsala Observatory, where he was appointed director.
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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 ... More about Anders Celsius ... Anders Celsius -- Uppsala University, Sweden...
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