While there's a whole lot of small cases of individual achievement in science, the enterprise as a whole depends heavily on cooperation. Newton didn't work on

While there's a whole lot of small cases of individual achievement in science, the enterprise as a whole depends heavily on cooperation. Newton didn't work on a team. But he did share his work with others, and the ones who thought he was doing interesting things shared his insights with still more people, until his discoveries were widely disseminated. In return, he's widely recognized and credited as the founder of modern physics. And that kind of arrangement is frequently what cooperation looks like on a grand scale.