Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius

male, deceased (1744)
Anders Celsius (November 27, 1701 - April 25, 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. He was professor of astronomy...
Olof Celsius

Olof Celsius

male
Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 0 represented the boiling point and 100 the freezing...
Magnus Celsius

Magnus Celsius

male, deceased (1679)
Magnus Celsius (1621 - 1679) was a Swedish astronomer and mathematician. His grandson was Anders Celsius.
Gabriel Fahrenheit

Gabriel Fahrenheit

male, deceased (1736)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German physicist and engineer who worked most of his life in the Dutch Republic. The °F Fahrenheit scale of t...
Henri Moissan

Henri Moissan

male, deceased (1907)
Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (September 28, 1852 - February 20, 1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his...
Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet

Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet

male, deceased (1868)
Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (February 16, 1791-June 14, 1868) was a French physicist. Pouillet was born in Cusance, Doubs, France. Between 1837...

Mark Tanner

male
Mark James Tanner is a New Zealand born adventurer and journalist best known for his successful descent of the Blue Nile River. Along with Canadian...

Ægidius Elling

male, deceased (1949)
Jens William Ægidius Elling (also Aegidus or Aegidius was a Norwegian inventor who is considered to be the father of the gas turbine. His first g...
Charles Kuentz

Charles Kuentz

male, deceased (2005)
Charles Kuentz (February 18, 1897 - April 7, 2005) was one of the last Germany veterans of the First World War. He was born in the village of...

Charles Herbert Lowe

male, deceased (2002)
Charles Herbert Lowe, Jr (April 16, 1920 - September 13, 2002) was a U.S. biologist and herpetologist. He was born in Los Angeles, California....