Isaac Newton
Laws of motion + calculus
English mathematician and physicist who laid the foundations of classical mechanics.
Sent home from Cambridge by the 1665 plague, the 23-year-old invented calculus, split white light, and worked out gravity in one 'year of wonders.' A secret alchemist who once stuck a needle into his own eye socket to study optics; spent his final decades hanging counterfeiters at the Royal Mint.
Famous for
- Three laws of motion
- Universal gravitation
- Co-invented calculus (with Leibniz)
- Reflecting telescope + theory of light
In Rubicon
Isaac Newton is one of the historical characters you can play as in Rubicon, a trivia game where you answer in your own words and an AI judge reads what you meant. Isaac Newton is filed under Natural Sciences, and is strongest at Natural Sciences and Earth & Space.
Others in Natural Sciences
- Marie Curie — Pioneered radioactivity
- Pythagoras — The Pythagorean theorem
- Euclid — Father of geometry
- Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi — Founder of algebra
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) — Optics + the scientific method
- Hypatia of Alexandria — Alexandria's last great scholar