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Centigrade, is a unit of measurement of temperature named after whom?

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It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius 17011744, who proposed the first version of it in 1742. The unit was called centigrade in several languages from the Latin centum, which means 100, and gradus, which means steps for many years.

A Kelvin

B Jean-Pierre Christin

C Marten Stromer

D Anders Celsius

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