Anders Celsius
Noun
Meaning
Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744)
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The innovative mathematician and physicist Samuel Klingenstierna (1698–1765) was made a professor in 1728, the physicist and astronomer Anders Celsius in 1729, and Carl Linnaeus was made professor of Medicine with Botany in 1741.
The observatory of Anders Celsius, from a contemporary engraving.