Sir Isaac Newton the Physicist

Early Life and Education

- 1642 - Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on December 25, 1642 January 4, 1643, New Style.

- Newton's father died three months before he was born. His mother remarried when he was two years old and left him in the care of his grandmother.

- Newton attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy.

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