"ISAAC NEWTON" APPLE TREE
Here is the scion of the storied apple tree which is believed to have led to Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of the law of gravity. A gift from John Astin, A&S ’52, and Valerie Sandobal Astin, this sapling was derived from a tree at the National Institute of Standards & Technology, itself a scion from the original tree at Newton’s home in Lincolnshire, England, and honors former Johns Hopkins fellow Allen V. Astin, PhD, physicist, electronics pioneer, and Director of NIST from 1951-1969. We are deeply grateful to the Astin family for their many contributions to our institution and for this grand piece of scientific history.

The tree located at Johns Hopkins University is a descendant of the original tree in Isaac Newton’s garden in England, which the myth says, that an apple that fell on his head while he was sitting under it led him to the discovery of gravity.

The tree was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image