Conway Stewart
Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642 (by the Julian
calendar then in use; or January 4, 1643 by the current Gregorian
calendar) in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England.
He was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and
natural philosopher, and is generally regarded as one of the greatest
scientists and mathematicians in history