1686-1736 German-Dutch Instrument Maker Daniel Fahrenheit is famous for the temperature scale that bears his name and for developing the first mercury thermometer. He also established quantitatively that boiling-point temperatures vary with pressure,...

Dutch physicist Daniel Fahrenheit invented the first truly accurate thermometer using mercury instead of alcohol and water mixtures. In the laboratory, he used his invention to develop the first temperature scale precise enough to become a worldwide...

(born May 24, 1686, Gdańsk, Pol.—died Sept. 16, 1736, The Hague, Dutch Republic) German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of...

1686-1736 German physicist and instrument maker who invented the mercury thermometer (in 1714) and developed the Fahrenheit temperature scale. The thermometer, however, was not generally adopted as a clinical instrument until the 1860s. Because the...

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a German physicist and engineer who worked most of his life in the Dutch Republic. The Fahrenheit (°F) scale of temperature is named after...