And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: November 27th, 1701, 315 years ago today … the birthday of the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius. Celsius is best-known for the temperature scale that ...

The name Anders Celsius will be familiar to readers from his invention of the universally-used temperature scale. But Celsius (1701-1744) was much more than that: he was a professor of astronomy, he ...

Until weather forecasters started to talk about "degrees Celsius" some 30 years ago, few people had ever heard the term. Even those familiar with the measure knew it as the "Centigrade" scale, and it ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- This week, scientists in Sweden celebrated one of their own. Anders Celsius would have turned 318 years old on Monday. So, we thought we'd take this chance to answer a Good ...

Temperature in America is measured in degrees Fahrenheit, a system named after Polish-born physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), who moved to the Netherlands and became one of the pioneers ...

I had always been keen to look up the graves of two of Sweden’s greatest scientists—Anders Celsius and Carl Linnaeus. Celsius’s gift to the world was, of course, the centigrade thermometer we all use.

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ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 17: Charles Jones fixes Thanksgiving dinner ahead of time at his apartment in Arlington, Virginia Saturday November 17, 2018. (Photo by J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington ...

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You’ve heard the word “Celsius” haven’t you? Be it in those weather reports when you are eagerly waiting for a day to be declared a holiday due to rains, or in the thermometer when your parents are ...