The secret life of Sir Isaac Newton: Three things you didn’t know
Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727) might just be the greatest English physicist and mathematician of all time. According to a poll of scientists conducted by Physics World magazine in December 1999, Isaac Newton was voted the second greatest physicist of all time, only after Albert Einstein. But even Albert Einstein himself is said to have kept a picture of Isaac Newton on his study wall, along with those of James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday. Such is the influence of the great man.
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