Exploratorium Founder Profiled in New Book (broadcast Friday, August 7th, 2009)

Physicist and Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer is profiled in "Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens". Author K.C. Cole, a friend of Oppenheimer's, digs into FBI files and personal memories to describe the complex man also called the "Uncle of the Atomic Bomb."

Guests

KC Cole
Author, "Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up," ( Houghton Mifflin, 2009)
Professor, Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

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Segment produced by:Annette Heist

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