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Now we know that Isaac Newton is a founder of classical physics, with his 3 laws about body interaction and gravity law. He is known also in mathematics as one of founders of differential equations. However, his main work was named "Mathematical principles of natural philosophy". Perhaps, he did not count himself as a physicist, but later generations did that.

Another example is about information theory. Its founders - Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener - were mathematicians. But it was born from applied practical need and not as some abstract mathematical extension of some math field.

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