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Which English physicist ended up being knighted?

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.

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Which English physicist ended up being knighted?

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