You mean his
plagiarizing of other people's work and sticking his own name on it, and then widely
distributing that classified document without permission?
I agree with most of the
rest of your text, but not with this. Von Neumann did not plagiarize anything. He
documented what he learned and passed it up the chain. ... Von Neumann didn't mean to
steal credit from the other Johns.
I'm curious how you know what his intentions were ....
Regardless, VN didn't do anything to dissuade people from giving him
credit. He never said, "I just learned this from the others and wrote
it up in a nice way and distributed it -- but it's their ideas."
Instead, he sat back while the world used "The von Neumann architecture."