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A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars / Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz.
This memoir of the renowned astrophysicist tells the story of how he overcame his personal demons, including an impoverished childhood and life of crime as well as an addiction to crack cocaine and entrenched racism.
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- ISBN: 9781984819093 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xv, 342 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata) African American scientists > Biography. Astrophysicists > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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- Baker & Taylor
This memoir of the renowned astrophysicist tells the story of how he overcame his personal demons, including an impoverished childhood and life of crime as well as an addiction to crack cocaine and entrenched racism. - Baker & Taylor
A bookish nerd is a soft target, and James Plummer faced years of bullying and abuse. He adopted the persona of "gangsta nerd," dealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that model Einstein's theory of relativity. The promise of a bright future in the physics PhD program at Stanford University was dulled by a dangerous crack cocaine habit he developed in college and the entrenched racism and classism of the scientific establishment. With the encouragement of hismentor he seized his dream of a life in astrophysics, and adopted a new name, Hakeem Muata Oluseyi, to honor his African ancestors. Here he shares his quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice. -- - Baker & Taylor
This memoir of the renowned astrophysicist tells the story of how he overcame his personal demons, including an impoverished childhood and life of crime as well as an addiction to crack cocaine and entrenched racism. Illustrations. - Random House, Inc.
In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics.
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS ⢠âYouâll encounter one extraordinary turn of events after another, as the extraordinary chess player, puzzle solver, and occasional grifter works his way from grinding poverty and deep despair to worldwide acclaim as a physicist.ââBill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society
Navigating poverty, violence, and instability, a young James Plummer had two guiding starsâa genius IQ and a love of science. But a bookish nerd is a soft target, and James faced years of bullying and abuse. As he struggled to survive his childhood in some of the countryâs toughest urban neighborhoods in New Orleans, Houston, and LA, and later in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, he adopted the persona of âgangsta nerdââdealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that model Einsteinâs theory of relativity.
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Once admitted to the elite physics PhD program at Stanford University, James found himself pulled between the promise of a bright future and a dangerous crack cocaine habit he developed in college. With the encouragement of his mentor and the sole Black professor in the physics department, James confronted his personal demons as well as the entrenched racism and classism of the scientific establishment. When he finally seized his dream of a life in astrophysics, he adopted a new name, Hakeem Muata Oluseyi, to honor his African ancestors.
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Alternately heartbreaking and hopeful, A Quantum Life narrates one manâs remarkable quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice.
