A Quantum Life

An epic personal and scientific journey through a system stacked against him. Haunting and heroic – Professor Sara Seager, author of THE SMALLEST LIGHTS IN THE UNIVERSEHakeem Oluseyi’s journey to adulthood is not only lyrical but immensely expansive and powerful. Moving across the American west and south, A Quantum Life encompasses with equal grace matters of particle physics and matters of a fractured family, challenges that are self-wrought and challenges inflicted by racism, triumphs over an academic landscape engineered against poor African-Americans and triumphs of the human heart – Jeff Hobbs, New York Times bestselling author of THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF ROBERT PEACEA physicist works with the statistical nature of the cosmos to predict the future - possible outcomes and unlikely ones. In A Quantum Life, 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. As you turn each page, you may not believe this outcome was possible. Read on – Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary SocietyA Black astrophysicist delivers a memoir that demonstrates the unstoppable strength of intelligence and the human spirit … A sharp, relatable book about self-reinvention and a loving nod to anyone who has ever believed in the potential of another * Kirkus (Starred Review) *This illuminating and candid memoir … is a testament to human fortitude … Fans of Neil deGrasse Tyson will embrace this invigorating account of a life devoted to science * Booklist (Starred Review) *

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

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.