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Isaac Asimov was a 20th-century American writer and biochemist. Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Read more on Wikipedia →

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