K.C. Cole, is an American science writer, author, radio commentator, and professor, she has authored how many nonfiction books, her memoir about her late mentor, Frank Oppenheimer, an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco?
Frank Oppenheimer Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 – February 3, 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Kate Brown (professor) Kate Brown is a Professor of History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. She is the author of "A Biography of No Place" (Harvard 2004), which won the American Historical Association’s International European History Prize for the Best Book. Brown’s most recent book is "Plutopia", a history of the world’s first two American and Soviet “plutonium cities”, (Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia), published by Oxford University Press in 2013. These were the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium for use in cold war atomic bombs. Brown is currently working on a book called "Being There", which explores the history of blighted communities which have been “silenced or destroyed”. Brown has received many research grants and written many articles.