I perhaps quibble with the dates, but I think it&#x27;s hard to underestimate how revolutionary and groundbreaking the preceding &quot;30 Years That Shook Physics&quot; were (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Thirty-Years-that-Shook-Physics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;048624895X" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Thirty-Years-that-Shook-Physics&#x2F;dp&#x2F;048...</a>).  Perhaps 35, from Plank&#x27;s late 1900 &quot;there&#x27;s quanta out there&quot; to Yukawa&#x27;s 1935 explication of the strong nuclear force, and don&#x27;t forget Einstein&#x27;s  General Theory of Relativity in-between, it&#x27;s still the best we have for gravity.<p>Since then, even with earth shattering developments like the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 and what followed from that, things have been quite a bit slower in physics.  Biology, though, certainly took up a lot of slack, we only really started getting a handle on its foundations in my lifetime.