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A Quantum Life : My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi & Joshua Horwitz [Oluseyi, Hakeem & Horwitz, Joshua] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “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 pr

Who reads A Quantum Life : My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars?

Author

Hakeem Oluseyi & Joshua Horwitz [Oluseyi, Hakeem & Horwitz, Joshua]

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781984819109

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Physics

Rating

4.8 / 5 (377 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14