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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Isaac Newton, Erwin Schrodinger, Max Planck, Michael Faraday, Thomas Young, Christiaan Huygens, Robert Andrews Millikan, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Ernst Mach, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Max Born, Charles Wheatstone, David Brewster, Albert Abraham Michelson, Alexander Prokhorov, William Hyde Wollaston, Edward Morley, Arnold Sommerfeld, James Clerk Maxwell, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, C. V. Raman, William Lawrence Bragg, William Henry Bragg, Arthur Compton, F. J. Duarte, Leon Brillouin, Robert W. Wood, Robert Clark Jones, Leon Foucault, John Clive Ward, Marlan Scully, Joseph W. Goodman, Herbert Eugene Ives, H Douglas Keith, Theodor W. Hansch, Emil Wolf, Henry Augustus Rowland, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Robert Hanbury Brown, Dan D. Yang, Loyd A. Jones, David MacAdam, John L. Hall, Willis Lamb, John Kerr, Raymond Chiao, Robert E. Hopkins, Seibert Q. Duntley, Hippolyte Fizeau, Boris P. Stoicheff, Warren J. Smith, Richard C. Lord, Eric Van Stryland, Richard Q. Twiss, Daniel Frank Walls, Perley G. Nutting, Poul S. Jessen, Georges Sagnac, Floyd K. Richtmyer, James P. C. Southall, Stanley S. Ballard, George R. Harrison, Susan Houde-Walter, Charles Fabry, William Nicol, David J. Wineland, Leonard T. Troland, John D. Strong, H. Jeff Kimble, Theodore Lyman, Arthur Ashkin, Leonard Mandel, Jean M. Bennett, Alfred Perot, Herbert Walther, Ludwig Zehnder, Alexis-Marie de Rochon. Excerpt: Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His monograph Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the ..