| |  | 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's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 0 represented the boiling point and 100 the freezing... |  | Magnus Celsius (1621 - 1679) was a Swedish astronomer and mathematician. His grandson was Anders Celsius. |  | 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... |  | 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 (February 16, 1791-June 14, 1868) was a French physicist. Pouillet was born in Cusance, Doubs, France. Between 1837... |  | 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... | | | 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... |  | 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, Jr (April 16, 1920 - September 13, 2002) was a U.S. biologist and herpetologist. He was born in Los Angeles, California.... | |
