No, he actually did a lot of the pioneeering work, but it's history that put him in his place along with the likes of Von Neumann. I've seen no indication of him going for glory. He was just a scientist.
History usually picks out a few of the top people to honor, relegating the contributions of all the others to a few lines in the history books, or to obscurity. For example, why is it that Oskar Schindler is so famous, yet history practically forgot Hermann Goering's younger brother Albert? He used his position, his family name and even forged his older brother's signature to save many Jewish families. He'd order truckloads workers from concentration camps for his factory, yet they somehow always escaped on the way. When caught he'd use big brother to get off, and then go right back to doing it again.
I'd never heard of Albert until a couple years ago, as a footnote to a story about Hermann Goering.
Excellent example.