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A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
Published [2021] by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Peguin Random House, LLC., New York
ISBN 9781984819093
Bib Id 1107253
Copyright 2021
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 342 pages ; 25 cm
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cam a22 i 4500
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2021-287842
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9781984819093 hc.
1984819097 hc.
9781984819116 (trade paperback) $19.00
1984819119
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B Oluseyi
Title
A quantum life : my unlikely journey from the street to the stars
Edition
First edition.
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[2021] by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Peguin Random House, LLC., New York :
Copyright Date
©2021
Description
xv, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Contents
Prologue -- Ghetto child -- Coming of age in Mississippi -- Historically Black in college -- Stanford starman -- Epilogue.
Summary
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 his mentor 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. --
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