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Competitive Exams · General Knowledge · question 237

Q237

Who invented the Centigrade scale?

A.
Anders Celsius
Answer
B.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
C.
William Thomson
D.
Wright Brothers

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Anders Celsius, regarded as the founder of Swedish astronomy, is best remembered as the inventor of the Celsius temperature scale (often called the centigrade scale), in which 0°C is the freezing point of water and 100°C is the boiling point.