Intellectually precocious, Asimov obtained his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1939, majoring in chemistry, and proceeded to take his MA in 1941 and PhD in 1948, after a wartime hiatus which he mostly spent working in the US Naval Air Experimental Station alongside L Sprague de Camp and Robert A Heinlein. He was not strongly involved in sf Fandom, but was for a while associated with the Futurians, one of whose members, Frederik Pohl, later published several of Asimov's early stories in his magazines Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, and with whom Asimov collaborated on one of his very last works, the timely nonfiction polemic Our Angry Earth ( 1991). He discovered sf through the magazines sold in his father's candy store, though his first precocious publication, Little Brothers (Spring 1934 Boys High Recorder 1988 chap), was nonfiction. (1920-1992) Russian-born US author, the original form of whose name was Isaak Iudich Azimov, but who was brought to America with his family in 1923, and became a US citizen in 1928 his second marriage, in 1973, was to fellow writer J O Jeppson (who later signed herself Janet Asimov).
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