What is Physics?
Physicists are involved in almost every aspect of our highly technical civilization. They do research in universities and government laboratories, teach in high schools and secondary educational institutions, and work in high-tech industrial positions. Others go into law, finance, the medical profession, and the publishing and film industries. Physics has laid the groundwork for many advanced industries; including computers, telecommunications, lasers, and medical diagnostics. Physicists investigate many of the latest discoveries such as massive neutrinos, blue semiconductor lasers, high temperature superconductors, black holes, and our expanding universe. Physics is the fundamental science of the properties and interactions of matter and energy. Physics students study a great deal of mathematics in order to understand nature in mathematical terms. They obtain laboratory skills, design experiments and apply instrumentation, such as, electronics circuits and optical instruments, to obse
Physics, major science, dealing with the fundamental constituents of the universe, the forces they exert on one another, and the results produced by these forces. Sometimes in modern physics a more sophisticated approach is taken that incorporates elements of the three areas listed above; it relates to the laws of symmetry and conservation, such as those pertaining to energy, momentum, charge, and parity.
This has been illustrated several times in the history of the Nobel Prizes. Therefore, a few awards for chemistry will also be mentioned in the text that follows, particularly when they are closely connected to the works of the Physics Laureates themselves. As for astronomy, the situation is different since it has no Nobel Prizes of its own; it has therefore been natural from the start, to consider discoveries in astrophysics as possible candidates for Prizes in Physics.
