Olof Celsius Olof Celsius was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1739. Olof Celsius Olof Celsius (the elder) (19 July 1670 – 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, "Hierobotanicon", in 1745-47. Olof Celsius's nephew Anders Celsius was an astronomer who invented a temperature scale where 100 represented the freezing point of water and 0 represented the boiling point. Jean-Pierre Christin, in 1744 reversed the scale
Vladimir Sokolov (scientist) to Bolivia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Mexico, Mongolia, Peru and Vietnam. His research interests were diverse. He studied radiobiology in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, as well as ethology and the systematics of mammals. A species of rodent, "Cricetulus sokolovi", was named after him. Also, a species of legless lizard, "Ophisaurus sokolovi", was named in his honor. Sokolov was also one of the first authors to write about the concept of biosphere reserves. Sokolov published about 1000 scientific papers. Vladimir Sokolov (scientist) Vladimir Sokolov (February 1, 1928 – April 19, 1998) was a Russian scientist in the field of zoology and