Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton FRS PRS
Portrait of Newton by Godfrey Kneller, 1689
Born	(1643-01-04)4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642] Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Died	31 March 1727(1727-03-31) (aged 84) [O.S. 20 March 1726] Kensington, Middlesex, England
Resting place	Westminster Abbey
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	Newtonian mechanics Universal gravitation Calculus Newton's laws of motion Optics Binomial series Principia Newton's method
Awards	FRS (1672)[1] Knight Bachelor (1705)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics Natural philosophy Alchemy Theology Mathematics Astronomy Economics
Institutions	University of Cambridge Royal Society Royal Mint
Academic advisors	Isaac Barrow[2] Benjamin Pulleyn[3][4]
Notable students	Roger Cotes William Whiston
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Sir Isaac Newton FRS PRS (25 December 1643 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is well known for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus also, he presents his theory of universal gravitation and three laws of motion.^[5]

Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope in 1668. He also developed a theory of light based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the colors of the rainbow. Newton also shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.

Newton's ideas on light, motion, and gravity dominated physics for the next three centuries, until modified by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

After being knighted in 1705 because he was Master of the Royal Mint, he was "Sir" Isaac Newton.

1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
2. ↑ Feingold, Mordechai. Barrow, Isaac (1630–1677), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2007; retrieved 24 February 2009; explained further in Mordechai Feingold's "Newton, Leibniz, and Barrow Too: An Attempt at a Reinterpretation" in Isis, Vol. 84, No. 2 (June 1993), pp. 310–338.
3. ↑ "Dictionary of Scientific Biography". Notes, #4. Archived from the original on 25 February 2005.
4. ↑ Gjertsen 1986, p. ^{[page needed]} harvnb error: no target: CITEREFGjertsen1986 (help)
5. ↑ Gay, Peter (1966). "The practical philosophers". Age of Enlightenment. Time-Life Books. pp. 12, 18.