- Science, History, Biography, Scientists
The lives and achievements of 1195 great scientists from ancient times to the present; chronologically arranged.
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Earnest, cool, epic and grave.
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Isaac Asimov
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 805
- Publisher
- Pan Books, Doubleday & Company, David and Charles
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780330243230
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Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942
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