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October 28, 2012 | History

Isaac Asimov

c. 2 January 1920 - 6 April 1992

Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, Pebble in the Sky, was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.

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Subjects
Juvenile literature, Protected DAISY, Accessible book, In library, Fiction, American Science fiction, Spanish language materials, Science, History, Robots, Science fiction, Astronomy, Popular works, Literatura juvenil, Fiction in English, Elijah Baley (Fictitious character), Translations into Russian, Life on other planets, Cosmology, Hari Seldon (Fictitious character), Historia, Psychohistory, Stars, Asteroids, English language
Places
Solar system, Earth, United States, Mercury (Planet), Jupiter (Planet), Moon, Uranus (Planet), Mars (Planet), Saturn (Planet), Middle East, Pluto (Dwarf planet), Pluto (Planet), Sistema solar, Outer space, America, Charon (Satellite), Estados Unidos, Sun, Venus (Planet), Cartago (Ciudad extinta), Carthage (Extinct city), Neptune (Planet), Oriente Medio, Milky Way, Great Britain
People
Isaac Asimov (1920-), Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), Isaac Asimov, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Bliss, Christopher Columbus, Cleon I, Elijah Baley, Eto Demerzel, Golan Trevize, Hari Seldon, Henry Hudson (d. 1611), Janov Pelorat, R. Daneel Olivaw, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time
20th century, 1783-1815, 19th century, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Hasta 622, Revolución, 1775-1783, Revolution, 1775-1783, Siglo XIX, Siglo XXI, To 622, 1815-1861, 1865-1921, 20e siècle, 392-814, 5000+ CE, Biblical times, Capetians, 987-1328, Civil War, 1861-1865, Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D., House of Valois, 1328-1589, Republic, 510-30 B.C., Siglo XX, To 1485

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  • Isaac Asimov (Editor)
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  • Isaac (EDT) Asimov
  • Isaac ASIMOVS
  • Isaac Asimiv
  • Isaac Asomov

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October 28, 2012 Edited by Christophe JAC Edited without comment.
October 28, 2012 Edited by Christophe JAC Added new photo
June 20, 2012 Edited by Alan Millar clean up names
June 20, 2012 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import