WRITER

Isaac Asimov

1920 - 1992

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Isaac Asimov ( AZ-ih-mov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) 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. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isaac Asimov has received more than 12,854,094 page views. His biography is available in 116 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 114 in 2019). Isaac Asimov is the 84th most popular writer (down from 71st in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Russia (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Writer.

Isaac Asimov is most famous for his science fiction novels and short stories.

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  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 116

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Isaac Asimov ranks 84 out of 7,302. Before him are Maxim Gorky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hesiod, Henrik Ibsen, François Rabelais, and Miyamoto Musashi. After him are Daniel Defoe, Knut Hamsun, Pablo Neruda, Giorgio Vasari, José Saramago, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Isaac Asimov ranks 3. Before him are Pope John Paul II, and Federico Fellini. After him are Yul Brynner, Charles Bukowski, Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Ray Bradbury, Farouk of Egypt, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Paul Celan, and Mario Puzo. Among people deceased in 1992, Isaac Asimov ranks 2. Before him is Marlene Dietrich. After him are Grace Hopper, Alexander Dubček, Menachem Begin, Willy Brandt, Friedrich Hayek, Joan Fuster, Francis Bacon, Astor Piazzolla, Mikhail Tal, and Olivier Messiaen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Isaac Asimov ranks 25 out of 3,761. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Ayn Rand (1905), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Lev Yashin (1929), and Maxim Gorky (1868). After him are Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Yuri Andropov (1914), and Alexander III of Russia (1845).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Isaac Asimov ranks 7. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), and Maxim Gorky (1868). After him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), Ivan Turgenev (1818), and Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861).

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