I did raise an eyebrow at it too, but I doubt his contribution was entirely “management of resources”.

I think one must also give him the credit for the vision, risk taking and drive to apply the resources at his disposal, and RL, to these particular problems.

Without that push this research would never have been done, but there may have been many fungible people willing to iron out the details (and, to be fair, contribute some important ideas along the way).

I’m not a proponent of the “great man” theory of history, but based on the above I can see that this could be fair (although I have no way of telling if internally this is actually how it played out).