Science of Yesteryear, January 2nd, 2009
Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. Asimov was an American author and biochemist, who was a prolific writer of science fiction and of science books for the layperson. Born in Petrovichi, Russia, he emigrated with his family to New York City at age three. He entered Columbia University at the age of 15 and at 18 sold his first story to Amazing Stories. After earning a Ph.D., he taught biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine after 1949. By 18 Mar 1941, at the age of 21, Asimov had already written 31 stories, sold 17, and 14 had been published. As an author, lecturer, and broadcaster of astonishing range, he is most admired as a popularizer of science (The Collapsing Universe; 1977) and a science fiction writer (I, Robot;1950).
I am currently reading Darwin’s On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, but Asimov is one of the authors that I feel I have to read next.
