Dr. Frank Oppenheimer

The qualities that made Exploratorium Founder Frank Oppenheimer so special are the same qualities that make the Exploratorium special: an insistence on excellence, a knack for finding new ways of looking at things, a lack of pretentiousness, and a respect for invention and play.

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    Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up
    by K. C. Cole

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