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    This document provides brief biographies of several notable British scientists and inventors, including Sir Isaac Newton, Alexander Fleming, Stephen Hawking, and Robert Hooke. Sir Isaac Newton was a pivotal figure of the Scientific Revolution known for his laws of motion and universal law of gravitation. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first broadly effective antibiotic. Stephen Hawking was a renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on the basic laws of the universe. Robert Hooke made early contributions to various scientific fields and was the first to observe cells under a microscope.

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    This document provides brief biographies of several notable British scientists and inventors, including Sir Isaac Newton, Alexander Fleming, Stephen Hawking, and Robert Hooke. Sir Isaac Newton was a pivotal figure of the Scientific Revolution known for his laws of motion and universal law of gravitation. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first broadly effective antibiotic. Stephen Hawking was a renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on the basic laws of the universe. Robert Hooke made early contributions to various scientific fields and was the first to observe cells under a microscope.

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    BRITISH SCINETISTS AND

    INVENTORS
    SIR ISAAC NEWTON

    • JANUARY 1643 – MARCH 1727


    • “THAT APPLE-AND-GRAVITY GUY”
    • CULMINATING FIGURE OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION OF THE 17TH
    CENTURY
    • OPTICS, PHYSICS, MECHANICS, MATHEMATICS
    • MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, 1687 (PHILOSOPHIAE
    NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA)
    3 LAWS OF THE MOTION

    Law of inertia Law of the motion f = ma Law of action and reaction


    LAW OF
    GRAVITATION
    ALEXANDER FLEMING

    • 6 AUGUST 1881 – 11 MARCH 1955


    • SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN AND MICROBIOLOGIST
    • GRADUATED ST. MARY’S MEDICAL SCHOOL IN LONDON –
    WANTED TO BE A SURGEON 
    • BEST KNOWN FOR DISCOVERING THE WORLD'S FIRST
    BROADLY EFFECTIVE ANTIBIOTIC SUBSTANCE – PENICILLIN
    • RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
    HIS WORK
    • FIRST MAJOR DISCOVERY – LYSOZYME – ENZYME PRESENT IN BODY FLUIDS
    • IN 1928 IDENTIFIED A MOLD AS PENICILLIUM NOTATUM
    • THOUGHT IT WAS ENZYME – IN FACT – IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST
    ANTIBIOTICS
    STEPHEN HAWKING

    • JANUARY 1942 – MARCH 2018


    • BRITISH THEORETICAL PHYSICIST AND COSMOLOGIST
    • GRADUATED FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN PHYSICS (BA) AND CAMBRIDGE
    UNIVERSITY IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS (PH.D.)
    • IN 1963 – DIAGNOSED WITH ALS (AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS)
    • WORKED ON BASIC LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE
    • SET OUT A THEORY OF COSMOLOGY EXPLAINED BY A UNION OF THE
    GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
    • HAWKING RADIATION – HE FORMULATED AN ARGUMENT FOR ITS EXISTENCE
    ROBERT HOOK

    • 28 July 1635 – 3 March 1703


    • English physicist
    • Contributed to mathematics, mechanics, biology and astronomy
    • Most famous for discovering the living cell
    • Discovered the law of elasticity - Hooke’s law
    • Early proponent of a theory of evolution because of his studies of microscopic fossils
    • In 1665 published his most famous work - Micrographia (”Small Drawings”)
    • One of the first men to build a Gregorian reflecting telescope
    • First suggested that Jupiter rotates on its axis
    • His detailed sketches of Mars were used in the 19th century to determine that planet’s rate of rotation.
    • Improved or invented weather measurement devices

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