And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: May 24, 1686, 329 years ago today ... a day for temperate celebration. For that was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, the European physicist ...

Fahrenheit: A temperature scale (introduced by Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit in 1714) in which the melting point of ice is 32(degrees) and the boiling point of water is 180 degrees higher at 212(degrees).

WARSAW, PolandWARSAW, Poland — Scientists in Poland have created a computer portrait of 18th century physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit using images of his relatives. Jerzy Proficz from the Gdansk ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: November 27th, 1701, 315 years ago today … the birthday of the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius. Celsius is best-known for the temperature scale that ...