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.
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NationalityPolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 2 Notable Work Field
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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.
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P27 (country of citizenship): Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
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P20 (place of death): The Hague, Netherlands
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P19 (place of birth): Gdańsk, Poland
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P800 (notable work): degree Fahrenheit
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View the SourceDaniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (Wikipedia)
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He visited England in 1724 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 May. In that year, he published fi
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