Four distinct awards have been named for writer, chemist, and humanist Isaac Asimov. * The Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story Writing, now known as the Dell Magazines Award, is an annual award open to undergraduate college students and given to the author of the best science fiction or fantasy short 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 is composed by several hundred of professors and PhD students from all over Italy. Origina