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January 2, 1920, Petrovichi, Mogilev province, Soviet Russia (Smolensk region, Russia - April 6, 1992, New York, USA, birth name Isaak Yudovich Asiimov - American science fiction writer, popularizer of science and biochemist.
It was named after the late maternal grandfather, Isaac Berman. Contrary to Isaac Asimov's later assertions that the original family name was "Ozimov", all relatives remaining in the USSR bear the surname "Azimov".
As a child, Asimov spoke Yiddish and English. From fiction in the early years, he grew up mainly on the stories of Sholem Aleichem. In 1923, his parents took him to the United States ("in a suitcase," as he himself put it), where they settled in Brooklyn and a few years later opened a candy store.
At the age of 5, Isaac Asimov went to school in the Brooklyn district of Bedford - Stuyvesant (he was supposed to go to school at the age of 6, but his mother corrected his birthday on September 7, 1919 in order to send him to school a year earlier).
At the age of 11, Isaac began writing a book about the adventures of boys living in a small town. It only lasted for eight chapters. Having written the first two, he told his friend, and he demanded a continuation. When Isaac explained that this was all he had written so far, his friend asked him to give a book where Isaac had read this story. From that moment on, the young author realized that he had a writing talent, and began to take his literary activity seriously.
After finishing tenth grade in 1935, fifteen-year-old Asimov entered Seth Low Junior College, but the college closed a year later. Azimov entered the Faculty of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York, where he received a bachelor's degree (BS) in 1939, and a master's degree (M. Sc.) In chemistry in 1941, and entered graduate school. However, in 1942 he left for Philadelphia to work as a chemist at the Philadelphia shipyard for the army. Another science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein, also worked with him there.
On Valentine's Day in February 1942, Asimov met on a blind date with Gerthrude Blugerman. They got married on July 26. From this marriage, a son, David, and a daughter, Robin Joan, were born.
From October 1945 to July 1946 Asimov served in the army. Then he returned to New York and continued his education. In 1948 he completed his postgraduate studies, received his PhD (doctor) degree in biochemistry, and entered the postdoctoral school as a biochemist. In 1949 he got a job as a professor at the School of Medicine at Boston University, where in December 1951 he became an assistant, and in 1955 - an assistant professor. In 1958, the university stopped paying him a salary, but formally left him in his previous position. By this time, Asimov's income as a writer already exceeded his university salary. In 1979 he was awarded the title of full professor.
In the 1960s, Azimov was under investigation by the FBI for possible links with the Communists. The reason was the denunciation of Azimov's respectful review of the USSR as the first country to build a nuclear power plant. Suspicions were finally removed from the writer in 1967.
In 1970, Azimov parted with his wife and almost immediately became friends with Janet Opal Jeppson, whom he met at a banquet on May 1, 1959. (Before that, they met in 1956, when he gave her an autograph. Asimov did not remember that meeting, and Jeppson found him then an unpleasant person.) The divorce entered into force on November 16, 1973, and on November 30, Asimov and Jeppson were married. There were no children from this marriage.
Isaac Asimov is the author of about 500 books, mostly fiction (primarily in the genre of science fiction, but also in other genres: fantasy, detective, humor) and popular science (in various fields - from astronomy and genetics to history and literary criticism ). Multiple Hugo and Nebula Prize Winner.
