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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...