| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Heaven on Earth |
1961 MAY |
sces |
stars; mapping the stars |
| |
Science: Four Steps to Salvation |
1961 JUN |
sces |
communication, advances in; see addendum on p.4, 1961 SEP - in response to a reader's question about Asimov's statement that primitive writing preceded agriculture: the Incas had no writing, but if writing didn't bring about agriculture, then what did? |
| |
Science: Recipe for a Planet |
1961 JUL |
sces |
elementary makeup of the Earth |
| |
Science: Evens Have It, The |
1961 AUG |
sces |
nuclear structure |
| |
Science: Not As We Know It |
1961 SEP |
sces |
life; chemical bases of life, only nucleic acid/protein in water is life-as-we-know-it |
| |
Machine That Won the War, The |
1961 OCT |
ss |
has story "Founding Father" in GAL 1965 OCT, N-1965 NEB; novel The Gods Themselves(GAL 1972 MAR, MAY; IFS 1972 MAR/APR; 1972; W-1972 NEB; 1973 HUG, LOC), a complex tale involving catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes(Clute) |
| |
Science: That's About the Size of It |
1961 OCT |
sces |
extremes in sizes of animals |
| |
Science: Dethronement |
1961 NOV |
sces |
scientific theory, changing it |
| |
Science: Trojan Hearse, The |
1961 DEC |
sces |
asteroids; Trojan or Earth-grazing asteroids |
| |
Science: Modern Demonology, The |
1962 JAN |
sces |
Maxwell's demon; has 1st coll. of F&SF science essays Fact and Fancy(1962) |
| |
Science: Superficially Speaking |
1962 FEB |
sces |
planetary areas |
| |
Science: That's Life |
1962 MAR |
sces |
life; the differences between life and non-life |
| |
Science: Weighting Game, The |
1962 APR |
sces |
elements, atomic weights |
| |
Science: By Jove! |
1962 MAY |
sces |
planets, Jupiter; the planet Jupiter |
| |
Science: Egg and Wee, The |
1962 JUN |
sces |
cells; the different sizes of various cells |
| |
Science: Hot Stuff |
1962 JUL |
sces |
neutrinos & supernovas |
| |
Science: Light Fantastic, The |
1962 AUG |
sces |
lasers |
| |
Science: Shape of Things, The |
1962 SEP |
sces |
Earth, shape of the Earth |
| |
Science: Slow Burn |
1962 OCT |
sces |
elements, oxygen and oxidation |
| |
Science: Pre-Fixing It Up |
1962 NOV |
sces |
metric system; see addendum p.63 in F&SF 1963 JAN, concerning a mathematical error "in the distance covered by light at short intervals" |
| |
Science: One, Ten, Buckle My Shoe |
1962 DEC |
sces |
numbers; binary numbers; see following article(#1791) by Frederik Pohl, also on binary numbers |
| |
Science: He's Not My Type! |
1963 JAN |
sces |
blood types; has 2nd coll. of F&SF science essays View from a Height(1963) |
| |
Science: Lost Generation, The |
1963 FEB |
sces |
genetics; discovery of the laws of genetics, Mendelian Laws |
| |
Science: You, Too, Can Speak Gaelic |
1963 MAR |
sces |
chemical nomenclature |
| |
Science: Rigid Vacuum, The |
1963 APR |
sces |
light & relativity, the luminiferous ether, Part 1; Part 2 in 1963 JUN(#1890) |
| |
My Son, the Physicist! |
1963 APR |
vi |
1st pub. in Scientific American, 1962 FEB; has anth. Before the Golden Age(1974; W-1975 LOC); anth. ser. The Great SF Stories 1(from 1939; pub. 1979) to 25(from 1963; pub. 1992), & The Golden Years of SF: 1st Series(1983) to 6th Series(1988) |
| |
Science: Just Mooning Around |
1963 MAY |
sces |
satellites of the planets & the Roche limit; Asimov received a special Hugo Award in 1963 for "Adding Science to Science Fiction" for his science essays in F&SF |
| |
Science: Light That Failed!, The |
1963 JUN |
sces |
light, the quantum theory, & relativity, Part 2; the Michelson-Morley experiment; Part 1 in 1963 APR(#1850) |
| |
Science: Isaac Winners, The |
1963 JUL |
sces |
scientists; Asimov's Portable Treasury of the World's Best Scientists, a gazette of the architects of physical knowledge. Of 72 scientists listed, which, in Asimov's opinion, are the 10 greatest scientists? Answers, p.128; see addendum p.113 in 1964 JAN |
| |
Science: T-Formation |
1963 AUG |
sces |
numbers; T-numbers, T standing for a trillion, very large numbers & primes; see addendum p.112 in 1964 JAN, which discusses further Fibonacci numbers & Mersenne primes |
| |
Science: Who's Out There? |
1963 SEP |
sces |
extraterrestial life possibilities; see update essays, "Fifty Million Big Brothers" & "Where Is Everybody?" in 1978 NOV & DEC |
| |
Science: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star |
1963 OCT |
sces |
stars; white dwarfs |
| |
Science: Welcome, Stranger! |
1963 NOV |
sces |
elements, gases; the 20 gases, from helium to chlorine fluoride |
| |
Science: Roll Call |
1963 DEC |
sces |
planetary nomenclature; see addendum p.87 in 1965 DEC, mentions book by Philip N. Bridges: Space Age Terminology |
| |
Science: Round and Round and ... |
1964 JAN |
sces |
planets; sidereal days of planets & their satellites; addendums to "The Isaac Winners"(1963 JUL) on p.112 corrects one error & lists other scientists readers have nominated, & "T-Formation"(1963 AUG) on p.113 about Fibonacci numbers & Mersenne primes |
| |
Science: Slowly Moving Finger, The |
1964 FEB |
sces |
aging, life spans of animals; has 3rd coll. of F&SF science essays Adding a Dimension(1964) |
| |
Science: Forget It! |
1964 MAR |
sces |
measurements; old measurement systems |
| |
Science: Piece of the Action, A |
1964 APR |
sces |
physics; modern & classical physics, Planck's constant |
| |
Science: Ghost Lines in the Sky |
1964 MAY |
sces |
lattitude and longitude; has nf book, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology(1964; rev. 1972; rev. 1982) |
| |
Science: Heavenly Zoo, The |
1964 JUN |
sces |
astrology; the zodiac |
| |
Books |
1964 JUL |
br |
V.A. Firsoff: Life Beyond the Earth |
| |
Science: Nothing Counts |
1964 JUL |
sces |
numbers; Roman numerals & the discovery of zero |
| |
Science: Days of Our Years, The |
1964 AUG |
sces |
calendars, lunar months, leap days, etc |
| |
Science: Haste-Makers, The |
1964 SEP |
sces |
enzymes, the metabolic catalysts |
| |
Science: First and Rearmost |
1964 OCT |
sces |
gravity, the gravitational force; see addendum p.42 in F&SF 1965 JAN, on arithmetical errors in this essay |
| |
Science: Black of Night, The |
1964 NOV |
sces |
universe; the expanding universe |
| |
Science: Galaxy at a Time, A |
1964 DEC |
sces |
galactic explosions; see addendum p.80 in F&SF 1965 FEB, on the explosion of 5,000,000 supernovas - they would be seen over 1000-1500 years, not all at once |
| |
Science: Begin at the Beginning |
1965 JAN |
sces |
calendars, New Year's Day, and the equinox; has 4th coll. of F&SF science essays Of Time, Space, and Other Things(1965) |
| |
Science: Harmony in Heaven |
1965 FEB |
sces |
Kepler's (third) harmonic law |
| |
Science: Oh, East Is West and West Is East |
1965 MAR |
sces |
Americas, the countries farthest east, west, south & north |
