Sir
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur
C. Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset in England in 1917.
He is a graduate of King's College, London (where he obtained
a First Class Honors in Physics and Mathematics), a past Chairman
of the British Interplanetary Society, and a member of the Academy
of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society and many other
scientific organizations.
He served
with the RAF during the Second World War and was in charge
of the first radar talk-down equipment during its experimental
trials.
He wrote
a monograph for Wireless World in 1945 predicting satellite
communications, and did it so well that when the first few
commercial satellites were launched twenty years later they
could not be patented. He has written over sixty books, among
them the science fiction classics , Childhood's, The City
and the stars and Rendezvous with Rama (which was unique in
winning all three major science fiction trophies, the Hugo,
Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards).
In 1968
he shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the
screenplay of 2001 A Space Odyssey. He became widely known
for his non-fiction work with the television series Arthur
C. Clarke's Mysterious World. Sir Arthur C. Clarke has for
many years made his home in Sri Lanka. He is the chancellor
of the University of Moratuwa and Patron of the Arthur C.
Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies.
He was
awarded the CBE by the Queen of England in 1989. A knighthood
was awarded to
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