Thanks for this. Haven't seen it before. He and von Neumann seem very much under appreciated in the modern world. I happened to go to college with one of von Neumann's nephews.
The beginning rings a bell with me. A decade or so back I was at a party and a couple friends come up to me and a gal says, "go ahead, ask him, I bet he knows". The question was who is Claude Shannon? I was a bit surprised saying who doesn't know Claude Shannon, and explained the basics of why he was an important person. They laughed and the gal said, "I told you he would know....he is such a geek." Which is a shame he should be known in the likes of Newton, Einstein, Maxwell and others. I put Oliver Heaviside in the same group of under appreciated people.