Specifically, he says the key period was 1900-1930.
I guess something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discove... can be helpful, but I think none of the discoveries in the last 30 years are quite as world-changing as general relativity, atoms, quantum physics, or galaxies.
Plate tectonics is a candidate to go on that list, and it was controversial until good undersea maps were available circa 1970. That is 50 years ago, not 30.
Re:The Relativity of Wrong (1989)
by antidesitter on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:38PM
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The discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (1998) is a pretty big one.
Although I'm not sure if it exists, I would enjoy a brief description of ways in which physics is more "right" now than in 1989, when this was written.