Exciting Developments in Physics c.1962

I was a bit fluezy..needed to stay in bed a bit longer...so I went over
to Edge.org thinking I'd stack up some videos to listen to by the
physics/cosmology movers and shakers of our time. The first one I
listened to was so incredibly uninspired...so uncreative, so no genius.
String theory, a patchwork of universes ours as it is by anthropic
principle. Where have the geniuses and great men gone?

So I started searching back through the archives, and selected a couple
of other videos. More interesting but nothing to be inspired by. Just no
breathtaking paradigm shifting ideas. The same brick QM, Big Bang,
Black-Holes, Origin-of-life, brick walls. Then I noticed the dates on
the videos I was watching was 2001. Wow...none of it was out of date.
Nothing has changed. so this is what it must have been like in times
gone by. When you could pick up a 50 year old book with the title
"Exciting Developments in Knowledge" and it'd still be up to date more
or less.

Where have the great geniuses gone? Are there any at all in the
universities and campuses in this and the last couple of generations?
The other day I read a pretty shocking article about how for a while now
ethnic politics pretty much governs Ivy League admissions in America.
There's massive discrimination in favour of some groups at the expense
of others. Quality of students has panned as a result. Maybe that's
where the geniuses are. They got turned away because someone else had
better ethnic connections.