Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

 Fahrenheit was born on May 24, 1686 in Danzig, but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic. The Fahrenheits were a German Hanse merchant family who had lived in several Hanseatic cities. Daniel was the eldest of the five Fahrenheit children. He lost both parents on the same day, Aug.14, 1701 because they ate a poisonous mushroom, and was thereafter apprenticed to a shopkeeper in Amsterdam. However, Fahrenheit's interest in natural science led him to begin studies and experimentation in that field.

First modern thermometer, the mercury thermometer with a standardized scale, was invented by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714. It helps meteorologist today because it helps them know which areas of the state or country is going to be hot or cold. We in America measure the degrees of hot and cold by Fahrenheit. He discovered the boiling and freezing point of water on the thermometer.

After inventing the thermometer and studying chemistry and physics Fahrenheit settled in The Hague as a glassblower, making thermometers. From 1718 onward, he lectured in chemistry in Amsterdam. He visited England in 1724 and was the same year elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Fahrenheit died in The Hague and was buried there at the Cloister Church in England. (He died on September 16, 1736)