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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
by
K.C. Cole
As a young man Frank Oppenheimer followed in his famous brotherhas drawn from letters, documents, and extensive interviews to write a very personal story of the man whose irrepressible spirit would inspire so many.
Hardcover, 416 pages
Published
August 4th 2009
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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a sort of love story to frank oppenheimer and his incredibly crazy museum, the exploratorium in san francisco. i found it most fascinating to finally read the book after hearing k.c. talk about frank for years and years, and realize what the hell she was talking about all the time. this is the rambling tale of a iconoclastic physicist who survived the manhattan project, the mccarthy purge of himself and his brother robert, and went on to enchant and delight the most ordinary of people in extraor...more
A great read about Frank Oppenheimer, the "uncle of the atomic bomb" (his brother Robert being the "father"), this book never slows as it covers the life of this great and inspiring and complicated man who struggled with science-and-politics and eventually created one of the greatest "museums" - The Exploratorium.
You can't escape wondering what happens after a strong and influential founder's passing - how the Exploratorium continues to make its way as i...more
You can't escape wondering what happens after a strong and influential founder's passing - how the Exploratorium continues to make its way as i...more
I was interested in the philosophy of Frank Oppenheimer, which is why I liked parts of this book. What he did with his life is fascinating, but the book was hard to get through at times ..as other readers, I felt like the writer jumped all over the timeline instead of keeping things in sequence. I gave up about halfway through and skimmed through random pages after that. It just didn't keep my attention.
I had this book for awhile before I actually read it because although I got a recommendation for it from a science blogger I really admire, I found myself doubting it later on.
I'm glad I read it. This is a WONDERFUL accounting of the life of Frank Oppenheimer (little brother of Robert), who also worked on the atomic bomb, but most notably founded the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
I was lucky enough to grow up in the Bay Area and visit the Exploratorium a few times as a k...more
I'm glad I read it. This is a WONDERFUL accounting of the life of Frank Oppenheimer (little brother of Robert), who also worked on the atomic bomb, but most notably founded the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
I was lucky enough to grow up in the Bay Area and visit the Exploratorium a few times as a k...more
I work at the Exploratorium, and every word I read in this book makes me more and more proud to be a part of this institution. Highly recommended.
Listened to KC Cole interviewed on Science Friday podcast (August 2009). Sounded like an interesting life to know.
I really enjoyed the first half of this book, but Cole goes on and on in the second half, rhapsodizing about Oppenheimer's museum and other late work. Had to put it down without finishing. It needed some severe editing.
I really enjoyed the first half of this book, but Cole goes on and on in the second half, rhapsodizing about Oppenheimer's museum and other late work. Had to put it down without finishing. It needed some severe editing.
Great biography about Frank Oppenheimer who was a physicist who later founded the Ex;loratorium. His physics career was destroyed by the Red Scare in the 1950s, became a rancher, then a teacher who was fascinated about how to teach science in an interesting way.
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For the past ten years, K.C. Cole has been a science writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times; she has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Smithsonian, Discover, Newsweek, Newsday, Esquire, Ms., People and many other publications. Her articles were featured in The Best American Science Writing 2004 and 2005 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002. She has a...more
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