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The name Celsius is a latinization of the estate's name (Latin celsus 'mound'). As the son of an astronomy professor, Nils Celsius, nephew of botanist Olof Celsius and the grandson of the mathematician Magnus Celsius and the astronomer Anders Spole, [3] [4] [page needed] Celsius chose a career in science. He was a talented mathematician from an ...
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.
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Anders Celsius; William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher; Reuben Crandall, 19th-century physician, caught disease while in jail awaiting trial; he was acquitted; George Mercer Dawson (1849–1901), Canadian geologist and surveyor; Gotthold Eisenstein, mathematician; Augustin-Jean Fresnel
William Anders, an astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the moon, and who took the famous “Earthrise” photo, died Friday after a small plane he was in crashed in the water ...
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]
The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network could face decades in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to federal fraud charges, admitting that he ...
However, drinking high-calorie energy drinks may cause weight gain if the extra calories from the drink exceed daily needs. Celsius energy drinks also contain chromium, a popular weight loss ...