I'm not a mathematician, nor do I know almost anything about the discipline, but it sounds like maybe you do. What teams of people spent an entire career worki

I'm not a mathematician, nor do I know almost anything about the discipline, but it sounds like maybe you do. What teams of people spent an entire career working together, focused entirely on Navier-Stokes or problems they suspected were related, without any "publish or perish" concerns? I realize tenure is a thing, but my limited understanding is that a significant amount of time is spent earning it, once you account for Ph.D. program and the years of needed to be granted it.