Sir Isaac Newton

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He got some laws moving--well, on moving--in 1687's "Principia Mathematica" Newton $400 DJ LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW 2021-05-07 #8395
He really set things in motion:WENT ON Newton $400 DJ ANAGRAMMED SCIENTISTS' LAST NAMES 2016-12-30 #7435
(I'm Neil de Grasse Tyson.) One of my heroes is unquestionablythis17th century man who at various times in his life was a member of Parliament, Warden of the Royal Mint & Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge (Sir Isaac) Newton $800 DJ SCIENTISTS 2015-10-09 #7145
In the mid-1660s he laid the foundations of calculus & wrote the essay "Of Colours" Newton DD $1,500 DJ SCIENTISTS 2013-12-18 #6733
In 1727 this physicist became the first scientist buried in Westminster Abbey Newton $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 2011-12-29 #6279
Einstein said this 17th & 18th c. physicist "stands before us, strong, certain and alone" Isaac Newton $800 DJ SCIENTISTS 2010-01-20 #5838
In the 1670s this British genius wrote, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" Newton $800 DJ SCIENTISTS 2009-12-31 #5824
Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let" him "be and all was light" Isaac Newton FJ FAMOUS SCIENTISTS 2008-12-03 #5578
Within an 18-month period, 1665 to 1667, he made discoveries about light, color & gravitation Isaac Newton $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 2007-11-06 #5327
In 1705 this Brit became the first scientist to be knighted for his work; you could say he had some "pull" Isaac Newton $400 J IT'S A SCIENTIFIC FACT 2007-04-27 #5220
He wondered if the force that pulled an apple to the ground could also pull the Moon into the Earth's orbit Newton $200 J SCIENTISTS 2007-02-08 #5164
Robert Hooke spent lots of time arguing over who made discoveries first, notably with this man over gravitation Newton $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 2005-09-30 #4840
At Cambridge, Wordsworth saw a statue of this scientist, "with his prism and silent face" Isaac Newton $400 J MAD ABOUT SCIENTISTS 2005-03-16 #4733
Edmond Halley paid all the expenses to publish this man's 1687 masterpiece "Principia Mathematica" Sir Isaac Newton DD $4,000 DJ SCIENTISTS 2004-04-19 #4526
At his death in 1727, he left over one million words he had written on alchemy & the occult Sir Isaac Newton FJ FAMOUS SCIENTISTS 2000-06-13 #3647
In 1703 he became president of the Royal Society & was reelected annually until his death in 1727 Sir Isaac Newton DD $2,000 DJ SCIENTISTS 1999-05-13 #3394
His discoveries, published in the 1704 work "Opticks", explained why objects appear to be colored Sir Isaac Newton $800 DJ NOT-SO-MAD SCIENTISTS 1998-05-27 #3178
At his death in 1727, he became the first scientist buried in Westminster Abbey Sir Isaac Newton $600 DJ SCIENTISTS 1997-01-13 #2851
Using a prism, this Englishman proved that white light is a combination of the colors of the spectrum Sir Isaac Newton $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 1995-11-16 #2579
9 years after his law of gravitation was published, he was appointed warden of England's Mint (Sir Isaac) Newton $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 1995-01-18 #2393
This 17th century English scientist explained how a rainbow is formed Sir Isaac Newton $800 DJ SCIENTISTS 1992-02-12 #1723
At the time of his death in 1727, this English physicist held the post of Master of the Mint Newton $600 DJ SCIENTISTS 1991-07-10 #1598
Calculus was developed independently by Gottfried Leibniz & this British scientist Newton $600 DJ SCIENTISTS 1991-05-13 #1556
In 1705 he became the first Englishman knighted for scientific achievement Sir Isaac Newton DD $1,000 DJ SCIENTISTS 1990-03-19 #1286
This Englishman is considered the most original & influential thinker in the history of science Newton $1,000 DJ SCIENTISTS 1988-11-07 #961
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