This situation kind of reminds me of President Shinra in FF VII, when (SPOILER)he was killed by Sephiroth and his son took over and began controlling the people with fear and ruining the planet, etc etc.
EDIT: Oh yeah, unfortunate to die at 56. But less of the calling him a great inventor and innovator and comparing him to Einstein and Marie Curie. He was a man who was great at was he did, and he was a businessman and marketeer.