MARC details
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| fixed length control field |
02732nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780349430355 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
520.92 |
| Item number |
OLU-A |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Oluseyi, Hakeem & Horwitz, Joshua |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A quantum life : My unlikely journey from the street to the stars |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
By Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
PIATKUS BOOKS, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2021. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
A Quantum Life narrates one man's remarkable quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue --<br/>Ghetto child --<br/>Coming of age in Mississippi --<br/>Historically Black in college --<br/>Stanford starman --<br/>Epilogue. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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. <br/>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. "You'll 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."--Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society Navigating poverty, violence, and instability, a young James Plummer had two guiding stars--a 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 country's toughest urban neighborhoods in New Orleans, Houston, and LA, and later in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, 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. 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 cocainehabit 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. Alternately heartbreaking and hopeful, A Quantum Life narrates one man's remarkable quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Astrophysicists -- United States -- Biography. African American scientists -- Biography. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Book |
