Scientist Who Discovered Celsius Scale. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686-1736 was the German physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709 and the mercury thermometer in 1714. Subtract 32 then multiply by 5 then divide by.
The next person after Fahrenheit to come up with a correct scale to measure temperature was Anders Celsius in 1742. Subtract 32 then multiply by 5 then divide by. His father Nils Celsius was.
In 1733 Celsius published a collection of 316 observations of the.
Celsius chose 0 degrees for the boiling point of water and 100 degrees for the freezing point. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744 but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany Italy and France. Initially the celsius scale used 0 o in order to denote the. Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer who built the Uppsala Observatory and invented the Celsius or centigrade thermometer scale.
