> A few ideas:
> 
> - A lot of the "science hero" worshipping in the mid-XIXth to mid-XXth 
> century was somehow propagandistic.

Seems reasonable.

> - Much of the modern science is anonymous 
> and just too abstract to make sense to the general public unless it's 
> pretty (fractals, astronomy) or made controversial by non-scientific 
> pressure (genetics, climate science).

That's probably a large part of the problem, yes.

Still, how many people have even the vaguest idea what Relativity is 
about? None the less everybody knows who Einstein was, even if they have 
no idea why he was so important.

> - World-altering breakthroughs are harder to find today and progress 
> seems more incremental.

This is probably the big one.

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