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Isaac Newton

1642 Woolsthorpe
1727 London

Isaac Newton was born to a family of farmers in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth in Lincolnshire (England) on 25 December, 1642. After schooling, Newton studied at Trinity College in Cambridge. He was deeply interested in mathematics, the nature of light and gravitation. In 1669 Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope and became a professor at Cambridge. He was admitted to the Royal Society in 1672 after he had discovered that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism. In 1687 Newton published "Principia" stating the three famous universal laws of motion and the Newtonian law of universal gravitation concerning the relationship between gravity and mass. Isaac Newton took up the post of warden of Royal Mint in 1696, three years later he became Master of the Mint (minister of finance). In 1700 Newton left Cambridge and moved to London. In 1703 he was made President of the Royal Society and in 1705 he was the first scientist to earn a knighthood. At the age of 84 Isaac Newton died in London on 31 March, 1727.

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