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The term Celsius comes from the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius who set the freezing point at 100 and the boiling point at 0.
One year later the French scientist Cristin reversed that and called the scale centigrade, because the scale was divided in 100 parts, with centi for standing for one hundredth.
Celsius and centigrade are the same, and for some time both terms were used, but in the mid-20th century Celsius was adopted as the standard name.
One year later the French scientist Cristin reversed that and called the scale centigrade, because the scale was divided in 100 parts, with centi for standing for one hundredth.
Celsius and centigrade are the same, and for some time both terms were used, but in the mid-20th century Celsius was adopted as the standard name.