Jean-Pierre Christin
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1683 –
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Who is Jean-Pierre Christin?
Jean-Pierre Christin was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer and musician. His proposal to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale was widely accepted and is still in use today.
Christin was born in Lyon. He was a founding member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon and served as its Permanent Secretary from 1713 until 1755. His thermometer was known in France before the Revolution as the thermometer of Lyon. One of these thermometers was kept at Science Museum in London.
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