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"but I can't think of a recent example where one person funded a significant R&D advance in any field."
Christopher Reeve funds research into curing spinal cord injury Terry Pratchett funds research into Alzheimer's I'm sure there are others.
Pratchett's donation appears to account for 1.5 months of the British funding towards Alzheimer's (numbers from http://web.archive.org/web/20080415210729/http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk/news/article.php?type=News&archive=0&id=205, math from me) . Which is great and all, but public funding is way better. So I stand by my claim.
Ok, I stand corrected re: Pratchett. How did you come by the numbers? and can you research Reeve's impact too?
Until then, you've still "heard of one recent example" :)