"a leading figure in American science for decades as a researcher with wide-ranging interests, a top-level governmental advisor on defense and energy issues"
"Anders Celsius defined the scale in 1742, considering boiling and freezing water temperatures, originally assigning values of 0°C and 100°C respectively (so that warmer results in a lower temperature); It was Jean-Pierre Christin (1743) and Carlos Linneo (1745) whom inverted both points on a later date. "
