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What did Anders Celsius work as?

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Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was born in Uppsala in 1701 and died in the same city in 1744. Celsius is best known for his work on the Celsius temperature scale, which is named after him. The Celsius scale is a temperature scale based on the freezing point of water (0 degrees Celsius) and the boiling point of water (100 degrees Celsius).
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