Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (/ˈaɪzᵻk ˈæzᵻmɒv/;[2] born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov; circa Januar 2, 1920[1] – Aprile 6, 1992) wis an American author an professor o biochemistry at Boston Varsity, best kent for his wirks o science feection an for his popular science beuks. Asimov wis a proleefic writer that wrote or eeditit mair nor 500 beuks an an estimatit 90,000 letters an postcairds.[a] His beuks hae been published in 9 o the 10 major categories o the Dewey Decimal Clessification.[3]
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 Isaac Asimov in 1965 | |
| Born | Isaak Yudovich Ozimov Between October 4, 1919 an Januar 2, 1920[1] Petrovichi, Roushie SFSR |
| Dee'd | 6 Apryle 1992 (aged 72) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Thrift | Writer, professor o biochemistry |
| Naitionality | Roushie (early years), American |
| Eddication | Columbia Varsity, PhD. Biochemistry, 1948 |
| Period | 1939–1992 |
| Genre | Science feection (haurd SF, social SF), mystery |
| Subject | Popular science, science textbeuks, essays, leeterary creeticism |
| Leeterar muivement | Gowden Age o Science Feection |
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| Spoose | Gertrude Blugerman (1942–1973; divorced) Janet Opal Jeppson (1973–1992; his daith) |
| Bairns | David Asimov Robyn Joan Asimov |
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Asimov wrote haurd science feection. Alang wi Robert A. Heinlein an Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov wis conseedert ane o the "Big Three" science feection writers in his lifetime.[4] Asimov's maist famous wark is the "Foundation" series;[5] his ither major series are the "Galactic Empire" series an the Robot series. The Galactic Empire novelles are set in earlier history o the same feectional universe as the Foundation series. Later, wi Foundation and Earth (1986), he airtit this distant futur tae the Robot stories, creautin a unifee'd "future history" for his stories muckle lik thae pioneered bi Robert A. Heinlein an previously produced bi Cordwainer Smith an Poul Anderson.[6] He wrote hunders o short stories, includin the social science feection novelette "Nightfall"; in 1964, it wis votit the best short science feection story o aw time bi the Science Fiction Writers of America. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series o juvenile science-feection novelles uisin the pen name Paul French.[7]
Asimov an aw wrote mysteries an fantasy, as weel as muckle nonfeection. Maist o his popular science beuks expleen concepts in a historical wey, gaein as faur back as possible tae a time whan the science in quaisten wis at its semplest stage. Ensaumples include Guide to Science, the three-vollum set Understanding Physics, an Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery, as weel as warks on chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, history, an William Shakespeare's writins.
He wis preses o the American Humanist Association.[8] The asteroid 5020 Asimov,[9] a crater on the planet Maurs,[10] a Brooklyn primar schuil,[11] an a leeterar awaird are named in his honour.
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