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  2. Anders Celsius - Wikipedia

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    Anders Celsius (Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈsɛ̌lːsɪɵs]; 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744) [1] was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. 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.

  3. Portal:Weather/Selected biography - Wikipedia

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    Anders Celsius (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈânːdɛʂ ˈsɛ̌lːsɪɵs]; 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician.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.

  4. List of Swedish inventors - Wikipedia

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    Anders Celsius (1701–44) was an astronomer and mathematician most famous for inventing the 100-point thermometer scale, widely used across the world. Sven Åderman is a Swedish inventor who created a musket capable of firing more rapidly than conventional weaponry of the late 18th century. This new musket was first used in the wars of King ...

  5. List of scientists whose names are used as units - Wikipedia

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    Anders Jonas Ångström: 1814–1874 Swedish: Length: angstrom (Å) Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet: 1818–1903 British Kinematic viscosity: stokes (St) William John Macquorn Rankine: 1820–1872 British (Scottish) Thermodynamic temperature: degree Rankine (°Ra ) James Clerk Maxwell: 1831–1879 British (Scottish) Magnetic flux: maxwell (Mx ...

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  7. Axel Fredrik Cronstedt - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 1738, Axel Cronstedt was an unregistered student at the University of Uppsala, hearing lectures [4] with Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709–1785), professor of chemistry, and astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744).

  8. Anders Spole - Wikipedia

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    His grandson Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 100 originally represented the freezing point of water and 0 represented the boiling point. Jean-Pierre Christin, in 1744 reversed the scale to create the centigrade scale, renamed in 1948 to the Celsius scale in use today. [5] [6]

  9. List of Swedish scientists - Wikipedia

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    Marianne Kärrholm (1921–2018), chemical engineer and professor; Ingrid Bruce (1940–2012), engineer and trade unionist; Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), inventor and engineer; Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996), inventor and engineer; John Ericsson (1803–1889), inventor and engineer; Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), inventor and engineer