Sir Issac Newton

Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician, was born into a poor farming family. Newton was a master of science and mathematics. He single-handedly contributed more to the development of science than any other individual in history. He discovered calculus, but his most popular discovery was gravity. Newton stated explicit principles of scientific methods, which applied universally to all branches of science. Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire as a premature infant …

…his happiest in the role of patron to younger scientists, and in 1703 as a tyrannical president of the Royal Society. Newton died in 1727. Before Newton’s death he said, “To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science” . Newton lays at rest in Westminster Abbey and his tomb is inscribed with these words: ‘Mortals! Rejoice at so great ornament to the human race!’