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FAHRENHEIT, GABRIEL DANIEL (1686–1936)

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FAHRENHEIT, See also:GABRIEL See also:DANIEL (1686–1936) , See also:German physicist, was See also:born at See also:Danzig on the 14th of May 1686. For the most See also:part he lived in See also:England and See also:Holland, devoting himself to the study of physics and making a living, apparently, by the manufacture of meteorological See also:instruments. He was the author of important improvements in the construction of thermometers, and he introduced the thermometric See also:scale known by his name and still extensively used in See also:Great See also:Britain and the See also:United States (see See also:THERMOMETRY). He also invented an improved See also:form of See also:hygrometer, a description of which, together with accounts of various observations and experiments made by him, was published in the Phil. Trans. for 1724. He died in Holland on the 16th of See also:September 1736.

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