Sir Isaac Newton?

Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642. His father was a yeoman farmer, who died just before his birth and who had inherited Woolsthorpe Manor, now owned by the National Trust. His education would have been rudimentary but for the intervention of Henry Stokes, headmaster of Grantham Grammar School. Stokes spotted the boy's potential and begged his mother to let him continue his education. There is an alleged inscription of I Newton scratched into the stone windowsill of the library at the school. Isaac Newton was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and theologian, and is now widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time.