What Was He Like as a Person?

Fig says he had three mentors, one of whom was like a father to him. Fig: I have no idea what i'm doing; it's just kind of luck. He also talks about the importance of mentorship in his own life and career.

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Hakeem Oluseyi is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, veteran, and humanitarian. Oluseyi was named a Visiting Robinson Professor at George Mason University in 2021, a distinction by which the university recognizes outstanding faculty.

In 2021, he published an autobiography titled: A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars co-authored with Joshua Horwitz.

His best known scientific contributions are research on the transfer of mass and energy through the Sun's atmosphere; the development of space-borne observatories for studying astrophysical plasmas and dark energy; and the development of transformative technologies in ultraviolet optics, detectors, computer chips, and ion propulsion.

Hakeem Is the president elect of the National Society of Black Physicists: https://nsbp.org/page/officers

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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:58 Judging the Book By Its' Cover
00:08:47 Why study the sun? It's so close! What makes observing it so diificult?
00:12:04 Hakeem's first space shot
00:17:26 Competition in Science - Hakeem V SOHO
00:20:41 The world of cutthroat competition in science!
00:30:12 The moral obligation for public science communication.
00:36:07 Art Walker and the importance of mentorship. Pioneering Black scientists.
00:49:47 About drugs and Hakeem's upbringing.
01:01:38 Would you change anything in your past if you could?
01:03:46 What would you put in a time capsule that would last a billion years?

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