biography
pronunciation:
[azimov]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1920–92)
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| biography:
| Novelist, critic, and popular scientist, born in Petrovichi, Russia. He was brought to the USA when he was three and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He studied chemistry at Columbia University and developed a career both as an academic biochemist and as a science fiction writer. Among his leading titles are the ‘Foundation’ novels - Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953); the so-called Robot novels - The Caves of Steel (1954) and The Naked Sun (1957); and the short stories which form the collection I, Robot (1950). Increasingly regarded as a scientific seer, he added the term robotics to the language. He wrote two volumes of autobiography (1979 and 1980), and later novels include The Disappearing Man and other stories (1985) and Nightfall (1990). Professor of biochemistry at the University of Boston, after 1958 he worked mainly on textbooks and works of popular science. |
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