Isaac Newton is one of the most important scientists in the history of the world.

His discoveries have impacted almost every aspect of physics and a huge part of the first two semesters of any physics course is dominated by his discoveries. It raises an interesting question however.

If Nobel Prizes were given out when Newton was alive, how many would he have won?

Join me as I play Fantasy Nobel Prizes with Sir Isaac Newton on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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Universe, Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

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as they wrestled with nature's most sweeping mysteries.

The answers they uncovered

still hold the key to how we understand the world.

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In a previous episode I went over the number of Nobel Prizes that Einstein could have won or should

have won assuming they gave out Posthumous awards.

This was a relatively easy exercise insofar as Einstein actually did win a Nobel Prize, and I was able

to limit the discussion mostly to things that did win a Nobel Prize but

Einstein just didn't get credit.

For Newton, this exercise is much more difficult.

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