Isaac Asimov (born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and ...

The indefatigably curious chemist and science-fiction icon championed rationality for the common good in 20 million published words. By David Leslie Asimov spent more than half of the twentieth ...

Isaac Asimov made his first major voyage when he was three years old. Having been born in the Soviet Union, the creator of the famous three laws of robotics sailed across the Atlantic in the wake of ...

Paul McCartney in 2024 and Isaac Asimov, photographed at an undisclosed date. CREDIT: Kristy Sparow/Getty Images (left), Alex Gotfryd/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images (right) Treatments for an alien ...

Personalities don’t get much bigger than Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, two giants of the genre. Though their views often clashed, the two spoke throughout their lives; they first met when Heinlein ...

Isaac Asimov, an author and professor of biochemistry at Boston U., wrote of the 1964 World's Fair — which looked ahead to a world without thermonuclear war — and guessed what the world would be like ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. One day when I was 12 I ventured into the adult section of my local public library for the first time. There, I ...

Condensed by Asimov's widow from the remarkably prolific author's three-volume autobiography, this fascinating but somewhat disjointed collection of excerpts conveys the exuberant spirit of one of the ...

With less than three weeks to election day, pundits and pollsters are desperately seeking the Norm. Not just any Norm, but a specific Norman — in this case, Norman Muller. This, at least, was the ...