To some degree. I guess it was the Wikipedia biography, maybe, which was more than I had known about him. The thing is that Tesla was essentially a "crank", i.e. outside the mainstream of scientific thought. Of course, he enjoys substantial recognition today ( speaking abstractly ) for his achievements and contributions, but he was nevertheless out of the mainstream, as he did not accept many established premises, Einsteinian special and general relativity, for example. So for this reason, he is not comparable to Newton.
Tesla was not comparable to Newton??? YOU TAKE THAT BACK!