Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit

Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was a celebrated German-born Dutch physicist, born at Danzig. He spent much of his life in England, but finally settled in Holland. He devoted himself to physical research. He is famed for his improvement of the thermometer by substituting quicksilver for spirits of wine and inventing a new scale, the freezing-point being 32° above zero and the boiling 212°.

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