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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), was a German (Prussian) physicist who proposed a scale of temperatures in 1724. He established fixed points for freezing brine (0 °F), the freezing point of water (32 °F), and the normal human body temperature (which he estimated as 96 °F). He divided the spaces between these points into equal intervals to define a uniform scale of temperatures.

Based on Fahrenheit's work, the system was eventually adjusted and refined to establish the boiling point of water as 212 °F with exactly 180 degree intervals between freezing and boiling points. Once widely utilized, the Fahrenheit scale is now used (mainly in the US) for weather and medical temperatures.

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