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The temperature scale was replaced by the Celsius scale in most countries during the mid to late 20th century,[2] but it remains the official scale of the United States, Cayman Islands and Belize.[[/URL]
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit#cite_note-britannica.com-0"][1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#cite_note-belizeweather-2)[[2]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit#cite_note-1) physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.[1]