What are the stories of physicists?

Sir isaac newton (1643, 65438+10.4-1727, March 3 1) was born in Woolthorpe Manor, an outdated village in Lincolnshire, East Central China. Chairman of the Royal Society, a famous physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher and alchemist, an encyclopedic "all-rounder", and author of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Optics and so on.

1687, Newton published "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", expounding gravity and three laws of motion, which laid the foundation of mechanics and astronomy in the next three centuries and became the foundation of modern engineering. Newton demonstrated the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravity, and showed that the motions of objects and celestial bodies on the ground all follow the same laws of nature. It provides strong theoretical support for the sun-centered theory and promotes the scientific revolution.

In mechanics, Newton expounded the conservation principle of momentum and angular momentum and put forward Newton's law of motion. In optics, he invented reflecting telescope, and based on the observation that a prism diverges white light into the visible spectrum, he developed the color theory. He also systematically expressed the law of cooling and studied the speed of sound. In mathematics, Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz shared the honor of developing calculus. He also proved the generalized binomial theorem and put forward Newton's method to approximate the zero point of function, which contributed to the study of power series. In economics, Newton put forward the gold standard.

In 2005, the Royal Society conducted a poll on "Who is the most influential person in the history of science", and Newton was considered to be more influential than Albert Einstein in the votes of academicians and netizens surveyed.