![]() ![]() With nearly five hundred books to his credit and several hundred articles, Asimov's output was prolific by any standards. He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day including Astounding, Astonishing Stories, Super Science Stories and Galaxy. Increasingly, however, the pressure of chemical research conflicted with his aspirations in the literary field, and in 1958 he retired to fulltime authorship while retaining his connection with the university.Īsimov's fantastic career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the appearance of a short story, Marooned Off Vesta, in Amazing Stories. He graduated in chemistry and after a short spell in the Army he gained his doctorate in 1949 and qualified as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine where he became Associate Professor in 1955, doing research in nucleic acid. He then went on to Columbia University and resolved to became a chemist rather than follow the medical career his father had in mind for him. A remarkable memory helped him finish high school before he was sixteen. He grew up in Brooklyn where he went to grammar school and at the age of eight he gained his citizen papers. Isaac Asimov, a world maestro of science fiction, was born in Russia near Smolensk in 1920 and brought to the United States by his parents three years later. ![]()
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