Something incredibly wonderful happens Frank Oppenheimer and his astonishing Exploratorium
Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer used his own intellectual inquisitiveness to found the Exploratorium, a powerfully influential museum of human awareness in San Francisco that encourages play, creativity, and discovery - all in the name of understanding. The author investigates the man behind the museum.
Biographies
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The world he came into
Palace of delights
A little royal family
The uncle of the atom bomb
Un-American
Exile
An intellectual desert and a library of experiments
The world he made up
A museum dedicated to awareness
A decent respect for taste
The man with the gold-rimmed glasses
The sentimental fruits of science
The anarch
The world he made up
Coda: living a fruitful life: speech to the 1960 graduating class of Pagosa Springs High School