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A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics

10 Feb 2022
Taken from the February 2022 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "A most improbable physicist".

David Appell reviews A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz

Hakeem Oluseyi
A transformed man Hakeem Oluseyi performing at an 'I F-ing Love Science' event in 2014. (Courtesy: John Davisson/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)
Hakeem Oluseyi found his way into professional physics unlike anyone you have ever known. Born James

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David Appell is a science writer living in Keizer, Oregon, US
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