Physics
Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines. Over the last 2000 years, physics had been considered synonymous with chemistry, philosophy, and other mathematics and biology, but became a unique modern science during the Scientific Revolution in the 16th century.
Physics is both influential and significant, in part because advances in its understanding have often translated into new technologies. For example, advances in electromagnetism or nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically transformed modern-day society (television, computers, etc.).
