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• Title:A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars / Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz.
  
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• Variant Title:Quantum life : adapted for young adults
  My unlikely journey from the street to the stars
  
• Author/Creator:Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata), author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Horwitz, Joshua, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Delacorte Press, [2023]
  ©2023
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at EDUCATION LIBRARY displayWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QB460.72.O48 A3 2023
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Oluseyi, Hakeem M. (Hakeem Muata)--Juvenile literature.
  Astrophysicists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  African American scientists--Biography--Juvenile literature.
  
• Subject(s): Astrophysicists--United States--Biography.
  African American scientists--Biography.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xiii, 333 pages ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"Renowned American astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi's (born James Plummer) coming-of-age memoir, from young boy to graduate-school student, charts the remarkable resilience of a boy who was offered few chances to succeed, but fought hard to achieve his dream"-- Provided by publisher.
  In this young adult adaptation of his book, Oluseyi (born James Plummer) tells how he faced years of bullying and abuse, and 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, before he finally seized his dream of a life in astrophysics. Here Oluseyi shares his quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice. -- adapted from adult edition
  
• Target Audience:Ages 12 up Delacorte Press.
  
• Notes:"Originally published in hardcover by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2021" -- Title page verso.
  
• ISBN:9781984849632 (hardcover)
  1984849638
  9781984849649 (library binding)
  1984849646
  9781984849656 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Prologue
  Ghetto child
  Coming of age in Mississippi
  Historically Black in college
  Stanford starman
  Epilogue.