International Space Hall of Fame :: New Mexico Museum of SpaceHistory :: Inductee Profile

Nice detail on Sir Isaac Newton...good to read.

Sir Isaac Newton UK Inducted in 1998

Identified the fundamental laws of optics, motion, and gravitation. British scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton contributed substantially to the science of optics and the nature of light, formulated the laws of motion and gravitation, and independently developed a form of calculus. Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire, England on January 4, 1643 (or December 25, 1642 by the Julian calendar then in use). Widowed shortly before Isaac's birth, his mother remarried when he was three, leaving him to be raised by his grandmother. Believing Isaac should be a farmer like his father she sent him to a grammar school in Grantham. At the age of thirteen he returned home to run the family farm, but by 1661, his family decided that Isaac would never make a good farmer and sent him to Trinity College, University of Cambridge. For more read on