Isaac Asimov

Asimov wis a proleefic writer that wrote or eeditit mair nor 500 beuks an an estimatit 90,000 letters an postcairds. His beuks hae been published in 9 o the 10 major categories o the Dewey Decimal Clessification.

Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov in 1965
Born	Isaak Yudovich Ozimov Between October 4, 1919 an Januar 2, 1920 Petrovichi, Roushie SFSR
Dee'd	6 Apryle 1992(1992-04-06) (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
Notable warks	The Foundation Series The Robot series Nightfall The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science I, Robot The Bicentennial Man The Gods Themselves
Spoose	Gertrude Blugerman (1942–1973; divorced) Janet Opal Jeppson (1973–1992; his daith)
Bairns	David Asimov Robyn Joan Asimov
Signatur

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. Asimov's maist famous wark is the "Foundation" series; 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. 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.

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. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, a crater on the planet Maurs, a Brooklyn primar schuil, an a leeterar awaird are named in his honour.