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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. He was born in Poland to a family of German origin, although he spent much of his life in the Dutch Republic. Fahrenheit significantly improved the design and manufacture of thermometers; his were accurate and consistent enough that different observers, each with their own Fahrenheit thermometers, could relia…
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science · Physicist and engineer (1686–1736) · physicist · inventor · instrument maker · chemist · also Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Fahrenheit
Born 24 May 1686 · Died 16 September 1736 · Q57073
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“'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'”
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But continued using Fahrenheit for public broadcasts into the 1980s
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Died 1736-09-16.
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1686· 1 entry
Born 1686-05-24.
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