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  2. The Fun They Had - Wikipedia

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    "The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).

  3. Isaac Asimov - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Asimov (/ ˈ æ z ɪ m ɒ v / AZ-im-ov; [b] [c] c. January 2, 1920 [a] – 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. [2]

  4. Marooned off Vesta - Wikipedia

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    "Marooned off Vesta" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the third story he wrote, and the first to be published. [1] Written in July 1938 when Asimov was 18, it was rejected by Astounding Science Fiction in August, then accepted in October by Amazing Stories, appearing in the March 1939 issue.

  5. Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel) - Wikipedia

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    Trey and Patru — class A or F main sequence stars, described as "white", a binary star system; Tano and Sitha — class A, B, or O main sequence stars, described as "blue", a binary star system; From what can be drawn from the text, Onos, the star appearing brightest and largest in Lagash's sky, is the star that Lagash orbits.

  6. Max Born - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Mie had used them in a paper on electrodynamics in 1912, and Born had used them in his work on the lattices theory of crystals in 1921. While matrices were used in these cases, the algebra of matrices with their multiplication did not enter the picture as they did in the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics. [ 41 ]

  7. Talk:The Fun They Had - Wikipedia

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    The summary is terrible, clumsily worded and seems written by a non-native speaker. Possibly ChatGPT. It also misses the point of the short story, barely mentioning it.

  8. Reason (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Reason" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). It is part of Asimov's Robot series, and was the second of Asimov's positronic robot stories to see publication.

  9. Frederick Sanger - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Sanger OM CH CBE FRS FAA (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.. He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins, demonstrating in the process that each had a unique, definite structure; this was a foundational discovery for the ...