he's dead, so not sure if it fits your definition of "contemporary" but this
book on the development of the "Exploratorium" Science Centre in San
Francisco includes a chunk of detail on the life of its creator, Frank
Oppenhiemer:
Hein, H (c1990) The Exploratorium : the museum as laboratory (Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press)
I am under the long-held prejudice that he is _the_ most interesting
character in the history of science communication. He worked with his
brother (J. Robert) on the Manhattan Project and was a physicist before
being kicked out of universities for being a communist, then after years
working as a teacher and running a cattle ranch he got the idea for the
Exploratorium while bored doing some history of physics at UCL…
also (and i'm sure you've got this already...) David Attenborough's "Life on
Air".
arb
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