Asimov, Isaac Asimov bust on 1950's retro modernist wood base

Isaac deserves a place in heroes of 20th century culture....he brought real science to science fiction, and was certainly one of the masters of this craft, bringing it to the ground-floor, just off the central corridor of mainstream thought. There is a good story as to how I happened to do him just this past month, but I shall save the story for my own written works, elsewhere.