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Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who wrote or edited more than 500 books. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, alongside Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.
Isaac Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation series, about a fallen space empire. The first three books won the one-time Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series in 1966.
Isaac Asimov coined the term "robotics" in his May 1941 story "Liar!", believing he was simply forming the natural analogue of words like mechanics and hydraulics. The Oxford English Dictionary credits his fiction with introducing "robotics", "positronic", and "psychohistory" into English.
Isaac Asimov was born in Petrovichi, in the Russian SFSR, on an unknown date between the 4th of October 1919 and the 2nd of January 1920. He celebrated his birthday on the 2nd of January.
Isaac Asimov died in Manhattan on the 6th of April 1992, with the cause reported as heart and kidney failure. He had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during triple bypass surgery in December 1983, a fact kept secret until Janet Asimov revealed it ten years after his death.
Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were a set of ethical rules for robots that appeared in his positronic robot stories, many collected in I, Robot in 1950. He believed the Three Laws and the Foundation series would be his most enduring contributions.
Isaac Asimov greatly increased his nonfiction output after the USSR launched Sputnik in 1957, driven by a desire to write popular science for an America he feared was neglecting science. Over the next quarter-century he wrote 120 nonfiction books and only four science fiction novels.