Newton

Newton is a Sun Badge. You need to achieve proficiency in 400 skills to obtain the Newton badge. To achieve proficiency, do the mastery challenges on the Learning Dashboard. You will obtain 150,000 free Energy Points after getting the badge. It is the second hardest Sun Badge to achieve, after Da Vinci. The badge was recently retired and recreated with the Summer 2013 Khan Academy Update. Therefore, users who joined before the Learning Dashboard come out would be able to get double points if they had this badge before.

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This badge was named after Sir Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. He allegedly made the connection of gravity when an apple fell on him. He was one of the first people to use calculus, along with Gottfried Leibniz.



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 * After the learning dashboard was added, they retired the old version of this badge and made a new one. Because of this, it is possible to obtain two copies of this badge: One retired, one current.