ISAAC NEWTON

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• ISAAC NEWTON (noun)
  The noun ISAAC NEWTON has 1 sense:

1. English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

  Familiarity information: ISAAC NEWTON used as a noun is very rare.

• ISAAC NEWTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Isaac Newton; Newton; Sir Isaac Newton

Instance hypernyms:

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the 17th century, Isaac Newton, through his observations on the splitting of light by a prism, sowed the seeds for a new field of science studying the interactions between light and matter – spectroscopy.

(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)