What year was Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born?
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born in 1686 in Danzig, Prussia. He was a German physicist and instrument maker, and is best known for his invention of the mercury thermometer in 1714. Fahrenheit's thermometer was the first to use a standard scale of temperature, and it became the standard for measuring temperature in most of the world. Fahrenheit also made significant contributions to the fields of optics and meteorology.
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