Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov
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Nghề nghiệp Novelist, short story author, essayist, historian, biochemist, textbook writer, humorist

GS Isaac Asimov (2 tháng 1? năm 1920? – 6 tháng 4, 1992, originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as Айзек Азимов) là một nhà văn Mỹ gốc Nga, tác giả và là giáo sư sinh hoá. Ông là một nhà văn thành công vượt trội được biết đến rộng rãi bởi các tác phâm khoa học viễn tưởng và khoa học thường thức.

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Asimov wrote or edited more than five hundred books and an estimated nine thousand letters and postcards, and has works in every major category of the Dewey Decimal System except Philosophy.[2] Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime.[3] Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best of its kind up to 1964. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of non-fiction. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.

Most of Asimov's popularized science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include his Guide to Science, the three volume set Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery.