Laws of Motion namesake (5,6)

I believe the answer is:

isaac newton

(Other definitions for isaac newton that I've seen before include "English mathematician and physicist" , "Laws of Motion man" , "Seventeenth to eighteenth century English physicist/mathematician" , "Scientist who proposed the basic laws of motion" , "he described it mathematically" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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