Isaac Asimov (Isaak Ozimov Yudovich, in Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; Petrovichi, c. January 2, 1920 - New York, April 6, 1992) was an American author and biochemist, born in Russia, author of fiction scientific and popular science.
The most famous work of Asimov's Foundation series,part of the Galactic Empire series and soon combined with his other great series of Robots
Wrote or edited more than 500 volumes, approximately 90,000 letters or postcards, and has works in every major category of the classification system of bibliographic Dewey. Asimov was recognized as a master of the science fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke has been considered in life as one of the "Big Three" of science fiction writers.
Asimov was born in Petrovichi or shtetl of Smolensk Oblast,son of Anna Rachel Berman Asimov and Judah Asimov, a miller in a family of Jews.
His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was only three years old. How did your parents always spoke Yiddish and English with him, he never learned Russian. While growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Asimov taught to read by himself, when he was five and remained fluent in Yiddish and in English. His parents owned a candy store, and everyone in the family had to work there.
Asimov was a student of New York City Public Schools, including Boys' High School, Brooklyn, New York. From there he went to Columbia University where he graduated in 1939, after taking a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.After completing his doctorate, Asimov joined the faculty of medicine at Boston University, with which he remained associated thereafter. After 1958, this was not to teach, as he turned to writing full time (his writing income has exceeded the academic salary). The permanent staff meant that he held the title of associate professor and in 1979 the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry.
Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman (1917, Canada in 1990, Boston) on July 26, 1942. They had two children, David (b. 1951) and Robyn Joan (b. 1955). After the separation, in 1970, he and Gertrude divorced in 1973, and Asimov married Janet O. Jeppson later that year.
