Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov, born Isaak Iudovich Ozimov (Russian: Исаак Озимов Юдович) ( January 2, Petrovitsji, New York, 1920 – april 6, 1992) was an American author andbiochemist. He was a very successful and fruitful author of science fiction and popular science books for the general public. He has about 500 publications to his name. Fans still affectionately call him The Good Doctor. He belongs together with Arthur c. Clarke and Robert A. Heinlein to the ' big three ' of science fiction writers in the 20th century.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Early years[ Edit] === Asimov was born in Petrovitsji, Russia; his family emigrated to the USA when he was three years old. He grew up in Brooklyn, in New Yorkcity. His parents were of Jewishdescent but were liberal in their religious beliefs. The young Isaac could thereby without problems independently develop into a ' man of the world ' and come into contact with the ' pulp ' SF-magazines from the 1920s and ' 30 ' as Astounding Science Fiction and Amazing Stories, which provoked his interest in SF. It was a happy side-effect that his parents, who ran a candy shop and newsagent, also this SF-magazines sold in their store. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939 and earned a Ph.d.(Ph.d.) in Biochemistry (1948). He went to work at the University of Boston, to which he remained always connected. Asimov has never really done much in his job by biochemist, apart from the wartime when he worked as Advisor for the Navy . He soon devoted himself fully to writing. ===Foundation[ Edit] === Asimov on a throne with the symbols of his works. Painting byRowena MorrillAsimov began publishing stories in science fictionmagazines in 1939. In 1950, he published his first book, Pebble in the Sky. His most famous work is a trilogy of novels,The Foundation (Foundation), The Foundation and the Empire (Foundation and Empire), and the second Foundation (Second Foundation) (1951-53), which is about the demise and resurrection of a Galactic Empire in the distant future. This was obviously inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire such as recovered by the British historian Edward Gibbonin his six-volume work Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published 1776-1788), which Asimov himself admitted. A theme in this story is also the Historicism: the idea that history inevitably takes a certain course regardless of the unpredictable behaviour of individuals, such as macroscopic objects in physics meet laws regardless of the unpredictable behaviour of elementary particles.
 * 1.1 early years
 * 1.2 Foundation
 * 1.3 Robot
 * 1.4 Death
 * 2 Work
 * 2.1 Foundation & Robot
 * 2.2 other stories
 * 2.3 popular science work
 * 3 Main prices
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 footnotes
 * 6 external links

In short begins the story with the mathematician Hari Seldon that lives in the aftermath of the first Galactic Empire. that existed 10,000 years and approximately 50,000 years in our future lies. He develops the so-called ' Psychohistorische ' science based on statistics with which to make long-term predictions about the course of future history. He discovered that within a few centuries the Empire will go under, which no longer is, and that there is a period of thirty thousand years of chaos and misery for a second Galactic Empire arises. In order to shorten that period to a thousand year founds Seldon two scholars colonies, the ' foundations '. The first, a public Foundation and a second secret colony, the Second Foundation. The Foundation series is about the following centuries and the problems the two colonies experience with the outside world and with each other.

In the 80 's has Asimov this series extended. The cornerstone of the Foundation books (Foundation's Edge, 1982), and The Foundation and Earth ( 1986,Foundation and Earth) were designed as a follow-up to the original trilogy; the Prelude to the Foundation books (Prelude to Foundation, 1988) and The Foundation: forward (Forward the Foundation,1993) play out before the other books in the series. ===Robot<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The second theme where Asimov was familiar with were his robot stories. In his short story collection I, Robot (I, Robot) (1950), he developed a number of rules of conduct which the robots from his stories belonged to follow. These were the laws of Robotics, which both in the world of science fiction as the scientific world of Cybernetics have become famous. In addition, he devised the Positronic brain of the robot. Both concepts have major influence on other science fiction writers. In the total robot (1984) (The Complete Robot (1982)) were almost all robot stories bundled. ===Death<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Asimov died on april 6, 1992 in New York. In a book written by her, it's Been a Good Life (2002), his widow Janet Jeppson Asimov revealed that he had died of aids as a result of a transfusion with infected blood during a triple-bypass surgery in december 1983.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  according to her wanted to be doctors then not that this fact was known.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ==Work<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Foundation & Robot<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With Prelude to Foundation (1989), Asimov robot-a link between its previous and Empire books and the first part of the Foundationseries. This was followed by still Forward the Foundation (1993) which after Asimovs death was published. With permission from his heirs are still three Foundation-books published but written by three other SF writers. ===Other stories<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Other ' robot stories ' were The Caves Of Steel (1954), The Naked Sun (1957), The Robots Of Dawn (1983) and Robots and empire (1985). His other novels and collections of short stories are The Stars, Like Dust(1951), the end of Eternity (The End of Eternity) (1955), Earth Is Room Enough (1957). Of the short story The Bicentennial Man is a 1983 film based on this los made with Robin Williams in the lead role. The bookdestination: human brain (The Human Brain) (1964) is also filmed a number of times. Are Nightfall (1941) has the reputation that it is one of the best short stories in science fiction ever written, and it is also made into a film. ===Popular science work<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The books by Asimov on various scientific topics are airy and written with humor . His subjects covered the entire range of human knowledge, you can call or Asimov has written about it. Of theology and biblical historyto abstract mathematics. A selection of Asimovs production:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Asimov also has three volumes of his autobiography written. In Memory Yet Green (1979), In Joy Still Felt (1980), and i. Asimov: A Memoir (1994).
 * The Chemicals of Life (1954),
 * Inside the Atom (1956),
 * The World of Nitrogen (1958),
 * Asimov's guide to science (1960), (science history)
 * Life and Energy (1962),
 * The Neutrino (1966),
 * Science, Numbers and I (1968),
 * The Dark Ages (1969) English translation: the dark ages (1970),
 * Our World in Space (1974),
 * The Collapsing Universe (1977) (English translation: black holes. The end of the universe?),
 * Views of the Universe (1981),
 * Change! (1982) (English translation: tomorrow! 71 future images of science, technology and society),
 * Asimov's new guide to science (1984), (revised) (history of science)
 * Asimov's guide to Halley's comet (1985) (translation: Halley's Comet).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">He also wrote various essays such as Thinking About Thinking and Science: Knock Plastic (1967). Even his hand appeared some detectives, whose series on the "black widowers" is the most famous. ==Main prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Hugo Award

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nebula Award
 * The Mule (1996)-novel (Retro Hugo retroactive)
 * Foundation series (1966)-all-time series
 * The Gods Themselves (1973)-novel
 * The Bicentennial Man (1977)-novelette
 * Foundation's Edge (1983)-novel
 * Gold (1992)-novelette
 * I. Asimov: A Memoir (1995)-nonfiction book

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nebula Grand Master Award (1986)
 * The Gods Themselves (1973)-novel
 * The Bicentennial Man (1977)-novelette

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Locus Award

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Miscellaneous
 * The Gods Themselves (1973)-novel
 * Before the Golden Age (1975)-reprint anthology
 * The Bicentennial Man (1977)-novelette
 * In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978 (1981)-related nonfiction book
 * Foundation's Edge (1983)-SF novel
 * Robot Dreams * (1987)-short story
 * I. Asimov: A Memoir (1995)-nonfiction

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * A crater on the planet Mars, Asimov called (2009)
 * 14 honorary degrees
 * Asimov had very bothered by fear of flying. Therefore he spent practically his entire life in New York and the surrounding area. To further places he went by train or ship.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * He loved flirting with women, which sometimes brought him into trouble with his wife (s).<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * Asimov loved small spaces: the opposite of claustrophobia. He lived in a small two room apartment in one of the skyscrapers of Manhattan.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * He has never learn cycling and held not by sport. Beware late age has taken a driving evidence Asimov.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * He was a fluent speaker and in demand for speaking engagements and SF-conventions. On SF-conferences (' cons ') left Asimov likes to be put in the Sun: he had not affected by excessive modesty.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * Asimov gave a private SF-magazine: "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", published for the first time in 1977. It remains one of the most popular magazines in the genre in which many modern SF-talent debuted.
 * For his fans, he had all the time and corresponded, as much as possible, personally the many post he of them got. He had a great sense of humor and not especially took themselves too seriously. This contributed a lot to his great popularity among the public.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="312" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]