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092 _aOLUSEYI, H.
_bO52
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aOluseyi, Hakeem M.
_q(Hakeem Muata),
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA quantum life :
_bmy unlikely journey from the street to the stars /
_cHakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz.
246 3 4 _aQuantum life :
_badapted for young adults
246 3 0 _aMy unlikely journey from the street to the stars
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bDelacorte Press,
_c[2023]
300 _axiii, 333 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"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.
505 0 _aPrologue -- Ghetto child -- Coming of age in Mississippi -- Historically Black in college -- Stanford starman -- Epilogue.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _aIn 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
521 _aAges 12 up
_bDelacorte Press.
600 1 0 _aOluseyi, Hakeem M.
_q(Hakeem Muata)
650 0 _aAstrophysicists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_9271289
650 0 _aAfrican American scientists
_vBiography.
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655 0 _aYoung adult literature.
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655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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700 1 _aHorwitz, Joshua,
_eauthor.
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