Describe a famous scientist or artist in your country.
You should say:
- who is s/he
- what s/he did
- how you know about him/her
and explain why s/he is famous.
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Being a citizen from the United Kingdom, I have many reasons to be proud of my country. One of the reasons is that it has produced many world-famous scientists, and today I would like to talk about one of them here.
Anyway, I have no doubt in my mind that the person, I am going to talk about here, is known to virtually every person in this world who has studied little science, and his name is Sir Isaac Newton. Yes, Isaac Newton is one of those rare breeds of physicists and scientists whose scientific invention has changed the world forever, and of course, for better.
As for his scientific invention, he is most for his works with “forces”, and specifically with the development of a universal law of gravity, but the true genius of his work, experts think, is how he ultimately took his theories and applied them to the universe at large, explaining the motions of the Sun and planets in a way that had never been done before. He also provided a clear understanding of “optics”. Being an inventor of “calculus”, his three laws motion, written in “Principia Mathematica”, greatly influenced the enlightenment in Europe and then eventually the rest of the world as well.
By the way, I first to came to know about this great scientist as a child from one of my uncles (a physics teacher) who told me about that famous story of a falling apple on the head of a person and then how that person came up with a theory from that falling apple. Later on, of course, I came to know even more from studying at school and college.
Anyway, Newton is still one of the most famous people in the history of the world because of his tremendous contribution to move forward our human civilization. Besides, the fact that people remember him today with tremendous respect and admiration is because his inventions and theories provided for the basis of modern-day physics.
