Why Newton is called the father of physics?

Sir Isaac Newton is known as one of the greatest scientists of the world. He was born in 1642 on the Christmas morning at Woolsthrope in Lincolnshire. He was sent to school at the age of twelve. When he was eighteen years old, he went to Trinity’s College at the Cambridge University. In this college, he showed his brilliance in mathematics. In the same college, he was appointed as a professor of mathematics.

In his childhood, Newton was fond of making mechanical toys. One day, he was sitting in the garden, when he saw an apple falling to the ground. He began to think: ‘’Why has the apple fallen towards the earth? Why did it not go towards the sky?” He wondered what it was that attracted the apple towards the earth. He worked on this problem and gave his famous ‘law of universal gravitation.’ He further established the fact that the earth attracts the bodies towards its centre. That is why anything thrown upwards falls back to the ground.

Newton was a great scientist, who solved many mysteries of nature. He showed that there are seven colors in sunlight, and he could separate these seven colors with the help of prism. He also showed that white light is produced by a mixture of these seven colors. The famous “Laws of motion” were given by him.

The discoveries of Newton were published in his famous book called ‘Principia’. Newton is called the ‘father of physics’ because of these researches. He was elected as the Member of Parliament in 1689. He was elected the president of the Royal Society in 1703 and every year he was elected as president until his death. He discovered new things about heavenly bodies in his old age. He died on March 20, 1727. We will always remember this great scientist.

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