Science itself is without fame or fortune. It is a process of continuous exploration by human beings in order to continuously understand unknown areas.
Madame Curie discovered radium and made it public, but later businessmen added radium to daily necessities such as cosmetics, mineral water, toothpaste, etc., and used this to promote the sales and make a lot of money (1902 The Radium Girls Incident). Marie Curie did not benefit from it and eventually died of radiation-induced leukemia.
So researching science and commercializing scientific results are two different things. Otherwise, if you stick to your own results, you will not be able to commercialize them, and you will not gain fame or fortune at all. Fortunately, scientists now have papers, patents, and other means to protect their achievements.