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Isaac Asimov, a biochemist and American author of science fiction and of
science books, published about 500 volumes. Born Jan. 2, 1920, Petrovichi,
Russia, Asimov arrived in the United States when he was three years old. He
grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. After he graduated from Columbia University with a
PhD, he joined the faculty of Boston University. Asimov began contributing
science fiction stories to periodicals in 1939. Nightfall (1941) is
considered the best science-fiction short story ever written. In 1950,
Asimov published his first book Pebble in the Sky. His trilogy, Foundation,
Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation (1951–53), describe a
futuristic disintegration and resurrection of an immense interstellar realm.
His ethics for robots and intelligent machines in the I, Robot (1950)
collection influenced other writers. Asimov's books on science, written with
humor, include: The Chemicals of Life (1954), Inside the Atom (1956), The
World of Nitrogen (1958), Life and Energy (1962), The Human Brain (1964),
The Neutrino (1966), Science, Numbers and I (1968), Our World in Space
(1974), and Views of the Universe (1981). He published a two-volume
autobiography. Isaac Asimov died April 6, 1992, in New York, N.Y.
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