Isaac Asimov was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He is famous for his science fiction works and popular science. Isaac Asimov actually chose this date himself. There are no accurate records of his birth so nobody, not even his family, really knew the exact date. The National Science Fiction Day has been chosen on his official birth date to honor him. He’s most famous for his Foundation series and I, Robot, as well as coining the term “robotics” and theorizing inventions and innovations nobody else had dreamed of.