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Isaac Newton

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q833163&amp;oldid=2562365698" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Knight Bachelor · dated 1705
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q205921&amp;oldid=2557059473" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q35794&amp;oldid=2565022482" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Cambridge
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q96804831&amp;oldid=2340896706" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Member of the 1689-90 Parliament · from 1689 · to 1690
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7744473&amp;oldid=2514462915" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The King&#39;s School, Grantham · from 1655 · to 1659
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q3074567&amp;oldid=2556939033" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Method of Fluxions

Wikidata describes Isaac Newton as English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727).

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