Fahrenheit
fah·ren·heit
noun
1.
German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)
Origin
From German Fahrenheit, named after Prussian scientist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.
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