The article doesn't touch on that the "great man" phenomenon also has a lot to do with the intersection of the person and their time in history. The atom bomb a

The article doesn't touch on that the "great man" phenomenon also has a lot to do with the intersection of the person and their time in history. The atom bomb and the atomic age cemented Einstein, Bohr, etc. as "great men" along with a lot of other physicists of the time. It is not only about who could do X, but also when they did it in a historical context. Of course sometimes it really is merely a matter of propaganda, or being the first widely publicized person to do X. I mean people have been doing this since the myth of Prometheus :-)