The name Sir Isaac Newton immediately brings to mind the apple that fell from the tree and a theory of gravity that would revolutionize the world. But there is also a dark side to this physicist ...

Isaac Newton changed the way ... and laws of motion that would later make him famous. But, naturally secretive, he kept his ideas to himself. Newton continued to experiment in his laboratory.

Isaac Newton was one of the leading figures of the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Considered one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, Newton devoted his life to the study ...

The son of a farming family, Sir Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire in England in 1643. He is best known as the scientist who first identified the effects of gravity. A popular story claims ...

His tutor Isaac Barrow is also buried in the Abbey. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1672, Newton served as its President from 1705 to 1727. He became Master of the Mint in 1699 and was ...

Historian of science Bill Newman says that Isaac Newton's alchemical notebooks are like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. But as you'll see as you peruse the 300-year-old manuscript at left, this puzzle i ...

Isaac Newton was one of the smartest people to ever ... that he wasn't a smart investor because he let his emotions get the best of him, and got swayed by the irrationality of the crowd.