Can scientists get rich?

Yes, some Scientists can become rich, and become millionaires. These Scientists are typically entrepreneurs or executives who have turned their work into a commercial success, unfortunately, these are few and far between.

Which field can make you billionaire?

Engineering. Coming in at the top is engineering – which might surprise you, but the scope of engineering is huge and widening all of the time.

Are there any billionaires over $1 billion?

If we go into the deeper pool of the billionaires list, which includes 1210 people with fortunes of over $1 billion, there still aren’t many candidates. There’s Ernesto Berteralli, who inherited Swiss drug maker Serono and helped build it into Germany’s biggest biotech.

How many billionaires make their money through the pharmaceutical business?

There are four technology billionaires and nine who made their money through investments who are richer than anybody who made their fortune in the health care field. Yet even in the general area of health care, drug development doesn’t do well. Many people have made billion-dollar fortunes through the pharmaceutical business.

How many billionaires make their money in health care?

Only 14 of the 400, or 3.5\%, get their money from health care or medicine. On the 1210-person billionaires list, about 60, or 5\%, made their money in health care. That compares to 90 billionaires from the tech industry, 80 from finance, and 140 who make their money from investments. (All that data is available by using our lists — and counting.)

Do medicines create billion-dollar riches?

Medicines change our world, preventing heart attacks, easing mental illness, and prolonging the lives of cancer patients. But according to Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires and the 400 Richest Americans, they don’t create billion-dollar fortunes.