"The scientific community adopted Kelvin instead Rankine, and that pretty much sealed the deal for Celsius. Today’s familiar units such as joules and the calori

"The scientific community adopted Kelvin instead Rankine, and that pretty much sealed the deal for Celsius. Today’s familiar units such as joules and the calorie (the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a gram of water by 1˚C) assume we’re working with Celsius-sized degrees." http://www.ericpinder.com/html/celsius.html http://www.ericpinder.com/html/celsius.html