Anders Celsius
27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744
Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He is best known for proposing the centigrade temperature scale in 1742, which was later named the Celsius scale in his honour.
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Life events
Anders Celsius was born into a family of scientists in Uppsala, the son of astronomy professor Nils Celsius.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCelsius became professor of astronomy at Uppsala University at the age of 29.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCelsius travelled through Germany, Italy, and France, visiting most of the major European observatories of the day.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIn Nuremberg he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made between 1716 and 1732.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCelsius participated in the French expedition to Torne Valley in Lapland that measured a meridian arc and confirmed Newton's view that the Earth is flattened at the poles.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCelsius secured funding for and built the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, the first modern observatory in Sweden.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIn a paper to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Celsius proposed a temperature scale with 0 at the boiling point of water and 100 at the freezing point, later reversed into the modern Celsius scale.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCelsius died of tuberculosis at the age of 42 and was buried next to his grandfather in Gamla Uppsala Church.
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