This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind is a 1978 nonfiction book by Ivan Doig.
 A memoir of the author's early life in Montana, it was a finalist for the National Book Award.
 It was Doig's first book, written in Seattle and followed by several fiction and nonfiction books.
 The memoir was based on interviews with his father and others, as well as archival research at the University of Washington.
 It was listed #4 the top 100 Western nonfiction books by the "San Francisco Chronicle".
Ashutosh Vijay Kotwal (born December 20, 1965) is an American particle physicist of Indian origin.
 He is the Fritz London Professor of Physics at Duke University, and conducts research in particle physics related to W bosons and the Higgs boson and searches for new particles and forces.
Jeffrey Robert Forshaw (born 1968) is a British particle physicist with a special interest in quantum chromodynamics (QCD): the study of the behaviour of subatomic particles, using data from the HERA particle accelerator, Tevatron particle accelerator and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
 Since 2004 he has been professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
 He is the co-author of 5 books, most notably the worldwide bestselling popular science books "Why Does E=mc²?
", "The Quantum Universe" and "Universal: A guide to the cosmos", co-written with physicist Brian Cox.
 He has also written over 100 peer reviewed papers published in scientific journals and speaks at international science festivals for children and adults.
 He frequently acts as science consultant to the BBC and other media and is a columnist for "The Observer".
 Forshaw is a recipient of the Maxwell Medal and Prize for his outstanding contribution to particle physics, and the Kelvin Prize from the Institute of Physics for his exceptional contribution to the public understanding of physics.
James P. Crutchfield (born 1955) is an American mathematician and physicist.
 He received his B.A. summa cum laude in Physics and Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Physics there in 1983.
 He is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Davis, where he is Director of the Complexity Sciences Center---a new research and graduate program in complex systems.
 Prior to this, he was Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute for many years, where he ran the Dynamics of Learning Group and SFI's Network Dynamics Program.
 From 1985 to 1997, he was a Research Physicist in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
 He has been a Visiting Research Professor at the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, University of California, San Francisco; a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UCB; a UCB Physics Department IBM Post-Doctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter Physics; a Distinguished Visiting Research Professor of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and a Bernard Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist.
 He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark.
 He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and was a professor of physics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley as well as a professor at Berkeley's graduate school in astrophysics.
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."
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.
Sau Lan Wu (Chinese: 吳秀蘭) is a Chinese American particle physicist and the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
 She made important contributions towards the discovery of the J/psi particle, which provided experimental evidence for the existence of the charm quark, and the gluon, the vector boson of the strong force in the Standard Model of physics.
 Most notably, the team she worked in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is part of the international effort in the discovery of a boson consistent with the Higgs boson, the so-called 'God Particle'.
K.C. Cole (born August 22, 1946) is an American science writer, author, radio commentator, and professor.
 She has authored 8 nonfiction books, notably the bestseller "The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty", which has been translated into a dozen languages, and her memoir about her late mentor, Frank Oppenheimer, "Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up".
 In 1995, she was awarded the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and has covered science for "The Los Angeles Times" since 1994.
 She is currently a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
 Cole is a resident of Santa Monica, California, United States.
Joseph "Joe" Incandela is an American particle physicist, a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and currently based at CERN where he spent two years as the spokesperson for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Question: 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?
Answer: 8