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Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
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Jean-Pierre Christin
French scientist (1683–1755)
Jean-Pierre Christin was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale was widely accepted and is still in use today.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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