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Anders Celsius

1701–1744 · 18th century

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer and professor at Uppsala University. He took part in the French expedition to Lapland in 1736–1737 that confirmed the flattening of the Earth at the poles, and founded the Uppsala observatory. In 1742 he proposed the hundred-degree temperature scale that, inverted after his death, bears his name.

Anders Celsius
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