Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Instagram
 

QUIZ: Can You Name These Historical Figures?

Lauren Kirkbride

Which English physicist ended up being knighted?

43%
A mathematician examines light shining through a window.

Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Retry Correct Incorrect Isaac Newton was the physicist and mathematician who invented calculus, the laws of motion, and the law of universal gravitation. Oddly, Queen Anne knighted him for his political work, not his mathematic achievements.

Which English physicist ended up being knighted?

  • Richard Dawkins
  • Charles Darwin
  • Isaac Newton
  • Ada Lovelace
43%