It's a bit disheartening that some part of science were created by a few hundred dudes in the course of a few decades (say, quantum theory in the early 1900s),

It's a bit disheartening that some part of science were created by a few hundred dudes in the course of a few decades (say, quantum theory in the early 1900s), and we know the name of those persons, and they changed the world for ever while also getting famous pretty fast. But nowadays, it takes hundreds of teams of unknown researchers to _not quite actually_ make the changes that we desperately need. Maybe there are some problems that you can only solve "Mannathan Project"-style, as opposed to the normal, slow and steady course of research ? Must take some courage to realize the urge, and still go the way of the tortoise without loosing your mind.