Newton enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he found a father figure who set him on the road to important discoveries. Isaac Barrow, Cambridge's first professor of mathematics, steered ...

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of ... laying the foundation for his later discoveries. The summer after Newton graduated, in 1665, the plague was spreading in Cambridge.

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in ... Unique for time, Newton is also famous for his revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, optics, physics and astronomy.

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...

His tutor Isaac Barrow is also buried in the Abbey. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, Newton served as its President from 1705 to 1727. He became Master of the Mint in 1699 and was ...

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a new study suggests that a small mistranslation in its original English ...

The Lincolnshire home of scientist Sir Isaac Newton is to reopen to the public ... keen to find out where some of the greatest discoveries and theories of all time were inspired," she said.