After becoming famous, he often met readers who believed that "Isaac Asimov" was a distinctive pseudonym created by an author with a common name. Īsimov refused early suggestions of using a more common name as a pseudonym, believing that its recognizability helped his career. This later inspired one of Asimov's short stories, " Spell My Name with an S". When the family arrived in the United States in 1923 and their name had to be spelled in the Latin alphabet, Asimov's father spelled it with an S, believing this letter to be pronounced like Z (as in German), and so it became Asimov. Azimov is spelled Азимов in the Cyrillic alphabet. Several entities have been named in his honor, including the asteroid (5020) Asimov, a crater on Mars, a Brooklyn elementary school, Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO, and four literary awards.Īsimov's family name derives from the first part of озимый хлеб ( ozímyj khleb), meaning ' winter grain' (specifically rye) in which his great-great-great-grandfather dealt, with the Russian patronymic ending -ov added. He was the president of the American Humanist Association. He wrote on numerous other scientific and non-scientific topics, such as chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, history, biblical exegesis, and literary criticism. Examples include Guide to Science, the three-volume Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery. Most of his popular science books explain concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French. He also wrote over 380 short stories, including the social science fiction novelette " Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted the best short science fiction story of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America. Later, with Foundation and Earth (1986), he linked this distant future to the Robot series, creating a unified " future history" for his works. The Galactic Empire novels are set in the much earlier history of the same fictional universe as the Foundation series. His other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction.Īsimov's most famous work is the Foundation series, the first three books of which won the one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series" in 1966. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Janu – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Isaac Asimov ( / ˈ æ z ɪ m ɒ v/ AZ-ih-mov c. OL24273942W Pages 142 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200925173726 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 374 Scandate 20200922173005 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781926979052 Tts_version 4.The kinetics of the reaction inactivation of tyrosinase during its catalysis of the aerobic oxidation of catechol (1948) Urn:lcp:iwritemathprecal0000appl:epub:479547ea-3b29-40b3-8700-fdc7ec75ccfb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier iwritemathprecal0000appl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9m42697w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781926979038ġ926979044 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang la Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8596 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19321 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:05:18 Associated-names Greg, Ranieri, author Boxid IA1943011 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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