When people are asked of a famous physicist they often first think of Sir Isaac Newton, his is because of this large contribution to the science world with his three laws of motion. These three laws are explanations for why objects on Earth move the way they do and how movement is possible. Newton however wasn’t just a physicist he was also a philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and astronomer. The famous physicist personal life was difficult; BBC refers to him as a genius with dark secrets. A biography of Isaac Newton’s life is outlined on History, born to a farmer who passed away three months after he was born, prematurely, not expected to survive his first months of life. Newton spent most of his early years of life with his maternal grandmother after his mother remarried. Born in 1643 Newton was expected to do what his father did before him, when he attempted to become a farmer like his father had, he failed. Newton then proceeded to enroll in formal education at University of Cambridge’s Trinity College in 1661.



BBC explains Newton’s
education experience; when
at Trinity College, Cambridge he meet a father figure, Isaac Barrow, his first professor of
mathematics, who set him on
the road to important discoveries.
During Isaac Barrow’s guidance, instead of the traditional undergraduate texts Newton examined big unsolved mathematical problems of the seventeenth century. These big unsolved mathematical problems included calculus, a way of     http://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656
describing how things change. Newton sought work by men who argued that the Universe was governed by mechanical laws, rather than religious explanations. Unfortunately, Cambridge University was closed in 1665 because of the plague, forcing Newton to go home. Although, the university was closed this is when his best work was done. During this time he made valuable observations that lead to his three laws of motion. In 1686 Newton published The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which was composed of more than twenty years of thoughts. His published piece outlined his own theory of calculus and the three laws of motion.