One of the pioneers of science fiction: Who is Isaac Asimov?

US writer. He is one of the pioneers of fiction. He was born on January 2, 1920, in Petrovich in the USSR. His family settled in the United States in 1923 and became an American in 1928. He received his degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1939 and his doctorate in 1948. He transferred to Boston University's School of Medicine the following year and was appointed adjunct professor of biochemistry in 1955. Asimov, who left his job in 1958 to devote all his time to writing, returned to the university after a long time and became a professor in 1979. The author, who became interested in fiction at the age of nine, had his first story published in 1938 and his first novel in 1950. He used the pseudonym Paul French in his books for children and George E Dale in one of his stories.

In his story Nightfall, which is considered one of the best examples of fiction, Asimov tells the problems to be experienced in a world that is plunged into darkness only once every two thousand years because it has six Suns. The author, who designed "positronic robots" in a series of articles about robots published in the 1950s, also describes a world that has become too crowded to live in in the book of the same series called The Caves of Steel. Foundation series, one of his most important works, is an example of taking lived history as a model for the future.

Not only is Asimov a fiction writer, but he has also written in literary genres such as humor, biography, and autobiography, and in almost every branch of science. Especially after 1960, Asimov, who wrote enlightening books for the public by opposing a scientific language and concept that only scientists could understand, became one of the most widely read names in popular science due to his fluent narration and his mastery of making the most complex subjects understandable. Until 1983, the author's 277 books, 300 short stories, and more than 2,000 scientific essays were published.

WORKS (mainly):

Fiction:

Pebble in the Sky, 1950,

I, Robot, 1950,

The Caves of Steel, 1954,

The Naked Sun, 1957,

The Foundation Trilogy, 1963,

Asimov's Mysteries, 1968,

Foundation's Edge, 1982.

Popular Science:

The Genetic Code, 1964,

A Short History of Biology, 1965,

The Humari Hody, 1965,

The Human Brainy 1965,

The Universe, 1967.