History of isaac asimov
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Entry updated 17 February 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1920-1992) Russian-born US author, the original form of whose name was Isaak Iudich Azimov, but who was brought to America with his family in 1923, and became a US citizen in 1928; his second marriage, in 1973, was to fellow writer J O Jeppson (who later signed herself Janet Asimov). He discovered sf through the magazines sold in his father's candy store, though his first precocious publication, Little Brothers (Spring 1934 Boys High Recorder; 1988 chap), was nonfiction. He was not strongly involved in sf Fandom, but was for a while associated with the Futurians, one of whose members, Frederik Pohl, later published several of Asimov's early stories in his magazines Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, and with whom Asimov collaborated on one of his very last works, the timely nonfiction polemic Our Angry Earth (1991). Intellectually precocious, Asimov obtained his undergraduate grad from Columbia Unive
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Isaac Asimov
(1920-1992)
Who Was Isaac Asimov?
Isaac Asimov immigrated with his family from Russia to the United States and became a biochemistry professor while pursuing writing. He published his first novel, Pebble in the Sky, in 1950. An immensely prolific author who penned nearly 500 books, he published influential sci-fi works like I, Robot and the Foundation trilogy, as well as books in a variety of other genres.
Early Life and Education
Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Yudovick Ozimov on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi, Russia, to Anna Rachel Berman and Judah Ozimov. The family immigrated to the United States when Asimov was a toddler, settling into the East New York section of Brooklyn. (Around this time, the family name was changed to Asimov.)
Judah owned a series of candy shops and called upon his son to work in the stores as a youngster. Isaac Asimov was fond of learning at a young age, having taught himself to read by the age of 5; he learned Yiddish soon after
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Today’s post comes from Thomas Richardson an archives technician at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Science fiction aficionados know the name Isaac Asimov well. Author of over 500 books and short stories, Asimov’s creations became staples of science fiction. The Foundation and Robot series rocketed him to fame as a writer of hard science fiction. Asimov was a prolific nonfiction writer as well, authoring dozens of books on physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and history. He also sported some amazing sideburns in his later years.
Born in Russia into a family of Jewish millers on January 2, 1920, his family immigrated to the United States in 1923, and he became a naturalized citizen in 1928. A gifted student for science, he took courses on zoology, medicine, and finally settled on studying chemistry. During World War II, he was employed as a chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. It was here that he became acquainted with Robert Heinlein an