Isaac Newton

Newton showed that attraction between planets will produce wobbles in their orbits.

He married a scientist.

Newton was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1705.

He was appointed professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.

He invented the more powerful telescope, using mirrors instead of lenses.

During the plague years, he studied ... at home.

Newton's friend Edmond Halley was an astronomer.

Newton's contemporaries were often ... to accept his physics.

Newton was born after his father's death.

He worked at Cambridge University for ...

Newton was the first scientist to be buried in Westminster Abbey.

He advocated reflecting telescopes, and built one.

Newton was appointed Master of Royal Mint.

His mother wanted him to become a ...

Newton's 3 books took him 2 years to write but over 20 years to research.

He was a lonely child.

Newton outlined a new type of mathematics called calculus, which is commonly used in ...

Newton graduated Oxford University.

Soon after his death, Newton came to stand as the symbol of ...

Newton died in his ... in 1727, aged 84.

He was often criticised by ...

He discovered that when white light shines through a prism, it then ....

Edmond Halley was his friend and he helped Newton to publish his book.

He hated alchemy.

Newton couldn't work out the laws of motion and of gravity.