Isaac Newton

I think Isaac Newton is pretty amazing to be able to be a Scientist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer, and Physicist. Isaac developed the principles of modern physics with his discoveries of mathematics, motion, and optics. Newton is best known for his law of gravitation. He was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He died on March 31, 1727, in London, England.

Isaac Newton's father, also named Isaac, died three months before Newton was born. When he was born, he was tiny and weak, Newton was not expected to survive. I guess he proved them wrong. When Isaac was three, his mother remarried to a minister and moved away, leaving the young boy behind to live with his grandmother. After nine years, when Isaac was twelve, his mother came back because her second husband died. Poor Isaac, he hadn't seen his mother in nine years! The first school that Newton went to was King's school. He learned about fascinating chemistry. His mother pulled him out of school to learn to tend the crops. Isaac failed horribly, he thought that farming was dull and had a lack of interest. He soon rejoined King's School to finish his basic education. His uncle persuaded Isaac's mom to let him join the University of Cambridge's Trinity College. Newton enrolled in a program in 1661, where he waited on tables and took care of wealthy students' rooms. When Isaac arrived to Cambridge, science was already in action. Newton was said to have discovered gravity because of the falling apple. Wow, he has an interesting childhood.

A bit ago, in Gifted, we were talking about IQ scores. Well, when I started researching Sir Isaac Newton, I said to myself, "I wonder what his IQ score is." So I searched it on the internet (Though the internet is not always accurate) and his IQ score was supposedly 190. That's amazing!

How interesting is this guy? To learn more about Sir Isaac Newton, click HERE to go to the website where I got my information from!