D. E. Shaw made a ton of money on Wall Street and then started a private biochemistry research company that's done a bunch of basic scientific research (includi

D. E. Shaw made a ton of money on Wall Street and then started a private biochemistry research company that's done a bunch of basic scientific research (including supercomputing) with many publications (including top journals like Science). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._E._Shaw_Research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._E._Shaw_Research (I'm just mentioning this because it's interesting, not for any private-vs-government debating points.)