Marshall Zebatinsky, a Polish-American nuclear physicist, feels his career has stalled.
Asimov was inspired by his own frustration with people frequently misspelling his name as "Azimov". His father had actually chosen the "S" spelling when the family arrived in the U.S. in 1923, believing it would be pronounced like a "Z" as in German. Cultural Impact spell_my_name_with_an_s
Security agencies find the name change suspicious, suspecting he is trying to hide his background. a Polish-American nuclear physicist
While investigating him, they discover he has a distant cousin in the Soviet Union who is also a physicist. spell_my_name_with_an_s