Four distinct awards have been named for writer, chemist, and
humanistIsaac Asimov.
The Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Writing, now known as the Dell Magazines Award,[1] is an annual award open to undergraduate college students and given to the author of the best
science fiction or
fantasyshort story. Established by the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and the
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, the award is typically given for character-driven stories of the type published in that magazine.
The ASIMOV Prize (
Italian: Premio ASIMOV) for popular science books, edited in the
Italian language. Its organising committee[2] is composed by several hundred of teachers and researchers from all over Italy. Originally established at
Gran Sasso Science Institute on the initiative of Francesco Vissani[2] of
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, it grew and became a national prize thanks to
INFN and many other scientific institutions. The winner is selected by a large jury of high school students, about 12,300 in the last edition.[2] The 1st recipient (2016) was the chemist
Peter Atkins, the 2nd one (2017) was the medical doctor
Roberto Burioni, the 3rd ones (2018) are
Helen Czerski and
Marco Malvaldiex aequoArchived 2020-11-30 at the
Wayback Machine, the 4th one the neurophysiologist
Lamberto Maffei. The winner of the 5th (2020) edition is the mathematician
Hannah Fry.[2]
The
skeptical organization
CSICOP created an Isaac Asimov Award, established in 1994 "to honor Asimov for his extraordinary contributions to science and humanity". The first recipient was Asimov's friend
Carl Sagan.[3]Stephen Jay Gould was also a winner.[4]