A Quantum Life - My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

An inspiring memoir of how the author succeeded against the odds to become a world-renowned astrophysicist

About the author

Hakeem Oluseyi is an astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, television personality, and public speaker. Since 2007, he has been a professor of physics and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology, and has served at Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Hakeem has hosted television shows including Outrageous Acts of Science, How the Universe Works, and Strip the Cosmos, which all appear on Discovery's Science Channel, where he has also been its Chief Science Officer. Oluseyi has been profiled by The Undefeated and the TED Blog.

Joshua Horwitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller War of the Whales: A True Story, which won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

Summary

An inspiring memoir of how the author succeeded against the odds to become a world-renowned astrophysicist

Additional text

Inspiring. His story serves as a reminder that barriers can be broken regardless of one's background and that there is no one way to be a scientist

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Horwitz, Horwitz Joshua, Hakeem Oluseyi
• Publisher: Piatkus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.08.2021
• EAN: 9780349430331
• ISBN: 978-0-349-43033-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; North America, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Relating to African American people, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black