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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German-born physicist and instrument maker working in the Dutch Republic who in 1714 produced the first thermometer using mercury as its working liquid, sealed in a glass tube with a reproducible fixed-point scale. His design, more accurate and stable than the open thermoscopes that came before it, is the version historians usually credit as the first practical, reliable thermometer, and the temperature scale he devised still carries his name.

Facts
Birth Year
1686 1
Death Date
1736-09-16 2
Death Year
1736 2
Field
Physics, thermometry 1
Death Place
The Hague, Netherlands 2
Nationality
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 2
Notable Work
degree Fahrenheit 2
Birthplace
Gdańsk, Poland 2
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
Connections

Invented

Thermometer, Instruments

Why this is disputed. The sealed mercury in glass thermometer with a standardized scale is credited to Fahrenheit in 1714; earlier open air thermoscopes without a standard scale existed from the early 1600s.

Source Thermometer (Britannica)

Works In

Physics, Disciplines
Source Thermometer (Britannica)
Sources
1. Thermometer (Britannica)
Encyclopaedia BritannicaView the Source
2. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +1736-09-16T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +1736-09-16T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
    Q172107
  • P20 (place of death): The Hague, Netherlands
    Q36600
  • P19 (place of birth): Gdańsk, Poland
    Q1792
  • P800 (notable work): degree Fahrenheit
    Q42289
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