Genuinely asking (not snark, and I am not a physicist): what does it mean to conduct research in &quot;electromagnetism&quot; more than a century after Maxwell? Did you study superconductivity? Electrical power beaming? Magnetic properties of weird alloys?<p>I ask only because I thought people who study these things are more likely to say they research &quot;electrical engineering&quot; (if they want to be general and applied), or &quot;condensed matter physics&quot; or maybe &quot;materials science&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m really just curious about the relevant terminology &#x2F; sociology of academia.