Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up - Hardcover

Cole, K. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151008221 ISBN 13: 9780151008223

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

A biography of Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer. Covers his wealthy childhood, his career in physics, his work with his brother Robert on the Manhattan Project, the creation of a museum that revolutionized science education, and more.

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As a young man Frank Oppenheimer followed in his famous brother's footsteps growing up in a privileged Manhattan household, becoming a physicist, working on the atomic bomb. Tragically, Frank and Robert both had their careers destroyed by the Red Scare. But their paths diverged. While Robert died an almost ruined man, Frank came into his own, emerging from ten years of exile on a Colorado ranch to create not just a multimillion dollar institution but also a revolution that was felt all over the world. His Exploratorium was a "museum of human awareness" that combined art and science while it encouraged play, experimentation, and a sense of joy and wonder; its success inspired a transformation in museums around the globe. In many ways it was Frank's answer to the atom bomb. K.C. Cole a friend and colleague of Frank's for many years has drawn from letters, documents, and extensive interviews to write a very personal story of the man whose irrepressible spirit would inspire so many.

A Look Inside Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
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Frank and Robert Oppenheimer, approximately 1915	Frank Oppenheimer with gyro, late 1950s
Frank in the empty Exploratorium, late 1960s	Frank with pendulums, 1980s

About the Author:

K.C. Cole is a science writer and a professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. She is the author of seven nonfiction books, most recently Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0151008221
• ISBN 13: 9780151008223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416