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Born May 24, 1686 • Gdańsk • Poland
Died September 16, 1736 (aged 50) • The Hague • Netherlands
Inventions Fahrenheit temperature scale • thermometer
Subjects Of Study boiling point • freezing point
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Ernst Ruska
German engineer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British chemist and physicist
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
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Guillaume Amontons
French physicist
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Johann Philipp Reis
German physicist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Abbe, Ernst
Ernst Abbe
German physicist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
German physicist
Geiger counter
Hans Geiger
German physicist

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