Rootless

About the Book

This book is an intimate account of an ordinary individual’s extraordinary life journey that transcends both cultural and social boundaries. The author was born and lived in Korea during his formative years, and has been living in the United States for the following 47 years. This individual’s unique story of his environment is informative and his approach to his life time challenges highlights every passage of the book. The book is thought provoking as well as enlightening…a rare gem in its subject, style and exposition. This book enlightens and entertains its readers at the same time effortlessly.

About the Author

The author is an accomplished scientist and science educator. He has co-authored and published some six dozen scientific and technical articles in various journals nation-wide during his professional career. The author worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a group leader and also as chief scientist in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Nuclear Materials Division. He developed and worked as the principle editor for the Los Alamos science periodical “Actinide Research Quarterly” in which he occasionally contributed editorials for some 10 years before his retirement. K.C. Kim, an accomplished scientist and science educator, held positions as a group leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and chief scientist in the Nuclear Materials Division. During his professional scientific career, he co-authored more than seventy technical articles in prominent scientific journals, and developed and worked as the principal editor for the science periodical Actinide Research Quarterly, where he contributed editorials for 10 years. Now enjoying his retirement, he actively pursues diverse hobbies including scuba diving and stone sculpting.