“Gentlemen and Fellow Physicists of America: We meet today on an occasion which marks an epoch in the history of physics in America; may the future show that it also marks an epoch in the history of the science which this Society is organized to cultivate!” (Rowland, 1899).1 These are the opening words of the address by Henry Rowland, the first president of Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, at the Society’s first meeting, held in New York on October 28, 1899. I do not believe that Rowland would have been disappointed by what the next few generations of physicists have cultivated so far.