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Isaac Newton

Influential British physicist and mathematician

1643 - 1726

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His biography is available in 235 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 225 in 2024). Isaac Newton is the most popular physicist, the most popular biography from United Kingdom and the most popular British Physicist.

Isaac Newton is most famous for his three laws of motion, which he formulated in 1687. The first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force. The second law states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. The third law states that when one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.

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Among physicists, Isaac Newton ranks 1 out of 863. After him are Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Among people born in 1643, Isaac Newton ranks 1. After him are Ahmed II, Afonso VI of Portugal, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Alessandro Stradella, Johann Adam Reincken, Ilona Zrínyi, Jean Chardin, and Henri Jules, Prince of Condé. Among people deceased in 1726, Isaac Newton ranks 1. After him are Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden, Michel Richard Delalande, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Sultan Husayn, Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin, Domenico Zipoli, John Vanbrugh, Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau, and Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Isaac Newton ranks 1 out of 9,870. After him are Elizabeth I (1533), Henry VIII (1491), Adam Smith (1723), William Shakespeare (1564), Charles III (1948), Charles Darwin (1809), George VI (1895), Francis Bacon (1561), Charles I of England (1600), Charlie Chaplin (1889), and George V (1865).

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Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Isaac Newton ranks 1. After him are Stephen Hawking (1942), Michael Faraday (1791), J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and James Clerk Maxwell (1831).

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