CRISPR is a genuinely novel scientific advance. The other items in your list are not. The Higgs mechanism was concocted half a century ago; gravity waves are e

CRISPR is a genuinely novel scientific advance. The other items in your list are not. The Higgs mechanism was concocted half a century ago; gravity waves are even older (general relativity is more than a century old). Their experimental confirmations were engineering feats. Neural networks are from the 50s. Add fast computers and you get deep ones. Put them in cars and they learn to drive themselves.