My Most Influential Person

Autobiography

Isaac Newton is best known for his theory about the lawof gravity, but his “Principia Mathematica” (1686) with its three laws of motion greatly influenced the Enlightenment in Europe. Born on 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England, Isaac Newton began developing his theories on light , calculus and celestial mechanics while on break from Cambridge University . Years of research culminated with the 1687 publication of “Principia”, a landmark work that established the universal laws of motion and gravity. Newton’s second major book, “Opticks”, detailed his experiments to determine the properties of light. Isaac is the son of a farmer who died three months before he was born, Newton spent most of his early years with his maternal grandmother after his mother remarried. His education was interrupted by a failed attempt to turn him into a farmer, and he attended the King’s School in Grantham before enrolling at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College in 1661. He returned to Cambridge in 1667 and was elected a minor fellow. He constructed the first reflecting telescope in 1668, and the following year he received his master of Arts degree and took over as Cambridge’s Lucasian professor of Mathematics. Through the experiments with refraction, Newton determined that white light was a composite of all the colors on the spectrum, and he asserted that light was composed of particles instead of waves. Newton was also an ardent student of history and religious doctrines and his writings on those subjects were compiled into multiple books that were published posthumously. He died in his sleep on March 31,1727, and was buried in West minster Abbey.



Good Deeds:
Out his best known for his work on gravity, Newton was a tinkerer, too, but more with the ideas than physical inventions. He did invent reflecting lenses for telescopes, which produced clearer images in a smaller telescope compared with the retracting models of the time. Among his biggest “inventions ” was calculus.

Why you choose that person?
I choose him because Newton didn’t just live, he grew up and lived long enough to become the single- most influential scientist of the 17th- century. He also have a wide range of discoveries, from this theories of optics to his groundbreaking work on the laws of motion and gravity, formed the basis for modern physics. He has inspired me to follow his footsteps and try my hardest. Newton, the genius of his time, has achieved as I believe the impossible in developing laws and theories that seemed foolhardy in his time. He has been in inspiring people to perform their hardest and try to make a difference in the world, ever since the publications of his works.