Question
Centigrade, is a unit of measurement of temperature
named after whom?Solution
It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), 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.
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