In science, Auguste Comte (1798-1857) was a French sociologist and philosopher notable for coining the term sociology and for having introduced the subject of "social physics". [1]

Education
Comte attended the famous French school of thermodynamics, the École Polytechnique in the mid 1810s. However, following the brief closure of the École in 1816, for reorganization, Comte was forced to leave and continue his studies at the medical school at Montpellier. When the École Polytechnique reopened, he did not request readmission. Physics was Comte's most difficult subject. His first year professor in physics, at the École Polytechnique, was French physicist Alexis Petit, who according to Comte, went too fast. [2]

Social physics
Ironically, in spite of physics being his most difficult subject, Comte is now considered the father of social physics. Specifically, in his Cours de philosophie positive (Positive Philosophy), written between 1830 and 1842, Comte argued that social physics would complete the scientific description of the world that Galileo, Newton, and others had begun. In particular, Comte stated:

“Now that the human mind has grasped celestial and terrestrial physics, mechanical and chemical, organic physics, both vegetable and animal, there remains one science, to fill up the series of sciences or observation—social physics. This is what men have now most need of; and this it is the principal aim of the present work to establish.”

References
1. (a) Ball, Philip. (2004). Critical Mass - How One Things Leads to Another, (pg. 58). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
(b) Nisbet, Robert A. (1970). The Social Bond - an Introduction to the Study of Society, (pg. 29). New York: Alfred A Knopf.
2. Pickering, Mary. (1993). Auguste Comte, (pg. 24). Cambridge University Press.