In Sweden, I only think of Anders Celsius.

Following a different path, in 1742 the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius proposed a decimal-friendly centigrade scale for temperature.

From the outset this numeric eccentricity bothered some people, and in 1742 Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, came up with a competing scale.

Anders Celsius (1701 to 1744) was the Swedish astronomer known for inventing the Celsius temperature scale.