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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Daniel Fahrenheit and the Mercury Thermometer

 

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Almanac: Fahrenheit's birthday

 

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

 

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Biografía de Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

 

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig/Gdańsk, a predominantly German-speaking Hanseatic city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic (1701–1736) and was one of the notable figures in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology.