He’d once been a molecular biologist.

So how does a guy with a Nobel Prize–worthy idea end up driving a van for a living? Therein lies a sad story—about bad luck, bad timing, and the sad truth of what success requires in science.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/the-sadder-side-of-the-nobel-prizes/#:~:text=One%20morning%20in%20October%202008,Alabama%E2%80%94although%20not%20by%20choice.