Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, Russia, on an uncertain date, around 2 January 1920, and arrived in Brooklyn at the age of three. He taught himself to read at five and discovered science-fiction magazines in his parents' sweet shop. He took a doctorate in chemistry at Columbia in 1948 and taught biochemistry at Boston University. The author or editor of more than five hundred books, he coined the word robotics and flew only twice in his life. He died in New York in 1992.

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• Short storiesI, RobotIsaac Asimov · 1950Literature