Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician.
15 Facts About Anders Celsius
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Anders Celsius was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.
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Anders Celsius founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 proposed the Centigrade temperature scale which was later renamed Celsius in his honour.
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Anders Celsius's family originated from Ovanaker in the province of Halsingland.
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The name Celsius is a latinization of the estate's name.
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Anders Celsius was a talented mathematician from an early age.
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Anders Celsius studied at Uppsala University, where his father was a teacher, and in 1730 he, too, became a professor of astronomy there.
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Anders Celsius's research involved the study of auroral phenomena, which he conducted with his assistant Olof Hiorter, and he was the first to suggest a connection between the aurora borealis and changes in the magnetic field of the Earth.
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Anders Celsius observed the variations of a compass needle and found that larger deflections correlated with stronger auroral activity.
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Anders Celsius traveled frequently in the early 1730s, including to Germany, Italy and France, when he visited most of the major European observatories.
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Anders Celsius was successful in the request, and Celsius founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741.
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Anders Celsius made observations of eclipses and various astronomical objects and published catalogues of carefully determined magnitudes for some 300 stars using his own photometric system.
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Anders Celsius's thermometer was calibrated with a value of 0 for the boiling point of water and 100 for the freezing point.
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Anders Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.
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Anders Celsius supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.