Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton was born on a farm in Lincolnshire, England, a small and sickly baby whose father had died before he was born. He went to Cambridge University, and when plague closed the university in 1665 and 1666 he returned home, where in about two years he began calculus, studied light, and started thinking about gravity; he later told the story of watching an apple fall. Using a prism, he showed that white light is made of all the colors, and he built the first working reflecting telescope. In 1687, encouraged by the astronomer Edmond Halley, he published the Principia, which set out three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, showing that the same force that makes an apple fall keeps the Moon in orbit and the planets moving around the Sun. Newton also spent many years studying the Bible, theology and alchemy. He became Warden and then Master of the Royal Mint, president of the Royal Society, and was knighted in 1705. He died in 1727 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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Faith: A Christian whose anti-Trinitarian views departed from Roman and Anglican teaching. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy