Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (; ; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig/Gdańsk, a predominantly German-speaking Hanseatic city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic (1701–1736) and was one of the notable figures in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A pioneer of exact thermometry, he helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer (first practical, accurate thermometer) and Fahrenheit scale (first standardized
IbpB thermometer IbpB thermometer The IbpB thermometer is an RNA thermometer element found in the "ibpAB" operon. The operon contains two heat-shock genes, encoding inclusion body binding proteins A and B (IbpA/B), and is the most drastically upregulated operon under heat-shock in "Escherichia coli". "IbpA" is regulated by a ROSE element found in its 5' UTR, while "IbpB" has its own heat-sensitive cis-regulatory element. The activity of this thermoregulator was confirmed "in vitro" but was not found "in vivo", suggesting more complicated operon regulation exists in bacterial cells. The IbpB protein, whose expression is regulated by the IbpB thermometer, is 48% identical