Charles Weissmann, the most famous Molecular Biologist of Switzerland: a really remarkable genius, or only a really „psychologically noticeable“ genius?

Was Charles Weissmann, the most famous Molecular Biologist of Switzerland really a genius, as reported in the following video? Or was he more precisely a „psychologically noticeable“ genius? Here is the report of Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org. It is a report of someone who has a bit more more back-ground knowledge about Charles Weissmann than …