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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

1686 - 1736

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (; German: [ˈfaːʁn̩haɪt]; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction. 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 reliably compare temperature measurements with each other. Fahrenheit is also credited with producing the first successful mercury-in-glass thermometers, which were more accurate than the spirit-filled thermometers of his time and of a generally superior design. The popularity of his thermometers also led to the widespread adoption of his Fahrenheit scale, with which they were provided. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is the 50th most popular physicist (down from 38th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Poland (up from 18th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Physicist.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is most famous for inventing the mercury thermometer. Fahrenheit was born in 1686 and he was a German physicist. He invented the mercury thermometer in 1714.

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Among physicists, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ranks 50 out of 851. Before him are Luigi Galvani, Nevill Francis Mott, David J. Thouless, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, and Gustav Kirchhoff. After him are Brian Josephson, Gabriel Lippmann, K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, and Richard Feynman.

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Among people born in 1686, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ranks 1. After him are Nicola Porpora, Hans Egede, Benedetto Marcello, Charles, Duke of Berry, Senesino, Hakuin Ekaku, Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Vasily Tatishchev, Antoine de Jussieu, and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz. Among people deceased in 1736, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ranks 3. Before him are Prince Eugene of Savoy, and Ahmed III. After him are Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Antonio Caldara, Stephen Gray, Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine, Filippo Juvarra, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Theophan Prokopovich, and Caspar van Wittel.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ranks 17 out of 1,694. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Günter Grass (1927), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846). After him are Wisława Szymborska (1923), Fritz Haber (1868), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Eric of Pomerania (1381), Otto Stern (1888), and Wernher von Braun (1912).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ranks 4. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Albert A. Michelson (1852), and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906). After him are Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), and Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848).

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