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oldest continuous series of weather observations. They were started by Uppsala scientists Anders Celsius and Erik Burman as long ago as 1722, so this year Uppsala is celebrating 300 years of meteorological data about our planet. This long series of observations is very important for present-day climate research. Anders Celsius (1701–1744) was a pioneer in the use of systematic observations of phenomena such as temperature, sea level and the aurora borealis to study the Earth and its changes. He is best known for the Celsius temperature scale (°C), which is now the international unit for temperature. The Celsius thermometer began to be used in observations in Uppsala in 1743. At that time, the scale was the reverse of the present-day scale: the boiling point was set at 0 degrees and the freezing point at 100 degrees.
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■ In Uppsala we have one of the world’s
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300 years of weather observations
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The Celsius thermometer began to be used in observations in Uppsala in 1743.
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I N N OVAT I O N : B I O LO G I C A L D R U G S AG A I N S T C A N C E R
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