Physicists have been complaining lately that biologists have been getting more than their fair share of taxpayer-funded Gummint research money. As a physicist, I think physics should get a lot more funding. There are a couple of very major projects hanging fire. One is the Superconducting Supercollider, which would have to be even more super now than when it was cancelled, just to keep the science edge in this country, and the other is nuclear fusion power generation.
I know I will be scorned for saying it, but I think physics needs a new paragigm. They are up against a brick wall. Cracks are appearing in Einsteins work. Locality has been relegated to the dust heap.
These are major phenomenological and epistemological changes.
Some of the very treasured basics might have to be rethought.
And because of the demographics, biology and gerontology especially are on the ascendency. Geezers got the bucks!