MORE ABOUT ARTHUR C. CLARKE
(Curriculum Vita)

Born: 1917 Dec 16, Minehead, UK
Parents: Charles Wright Clarke (Lieut. Royal Engineers, Farmer) & Nora Mary (Willis.)
Married Marilyn Mayfield 1953; divorced 1964.
Lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956
First non-citizen to be granted "Resident Guest" status, 1975.
Author of about 80 books, 500 articles and short stories.

Education:

Huish's Grammar School, Taunton, 1927-36.

King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., 1st Class, Physics & Maths.)

Occupation:

Auditor, H.M. Exchequer & Audit Dept., 1936-41

Royal Air Force, 1941-46. Instructor, No 9 Radio School (Yatesbury), then Flt/Lt with MIT Radiation Lab's GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar.

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950.

Asst. Ed., Physics Abstracts, Insn. of Elect. Engineers, 1949-50.

Diving on Great Barrier Reef & Indian Ocean 1954-

Writing 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY with Stanley Kubrick, 1964-8.

Lecturing in US, covering Apollo Missions for CBS TV, 1957-70.

Playing Leonard Woolf in The Village in the Jungle 1979.

Vikram Sarabhai Professor, PRL, Ahmedabad, India, 1980

Writing and hosting Yorkshire TV series ARTHUR C CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS WORLD, 1980, WORLD OF STRANGE POWERS, 1984, and MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE, 1994

Delivered Nehru Memorial Lecture, New Delhi, 1986

Delivered Alistair Cooke Lecture, 1992

Affiliations:

Chairman, British Interplanetary Society 1947-50, 1953.

Hon. Chairman, Society of Satellite Professionals

President, British Science Fiction Association

Life Member: Assn. of British Science Writers

Hon. Vice President, H.G. Wells Society

Patron:
   Arthur Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, Sri Lanka
   Sri Lanka Assn. for the Advancement of Science
   Sri Lanka Astronomical Association
   Sri Lanka Animal Welfare Association
   Science Fiction Foundation
   British Sub Aqua-Club
   National Institute for Paraplegics, Sri Lanka

Council Member: Society of Authors

Advisory Council:
   International Science Policy Foundation
   Fauna International (Sri Lanka)
   Earth Trust

Board Member:
   National Space Society (USA)
   Space Generation Foundation (USA)
   IAU (SETI) Commission 51
   The Planetary Society (USA)
   Lindbergh Award Nominations Committee (USA)

Trustee: Institute of Integral Education (Sri Lanka)

Society Memberships:

Fellow:
   Royal Astronomical Society
   Royal Society of Arts

Member: Royal Asiatic Society
   British Astronomical Association
   Science Fiction Writers of America
   Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Director:
   Rocket Publishing Company (UK)
   Underwater Safaris (Sri Lanka)

Awards and Honours:

British Interplanetary Society, Hon. Fellow

American Astronautical Association, Hon. Fellow

World Academy of Art & Science, Academician

International Academy of Astronautics, Hon. Fellow 1960

Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Gold Medal 1963

Franklin Institute, Fellow 1971

Beaver College, Pennsylvania, Hon. D. Sc 1971

AIAA Aerospace Communications Award, 1974

AIAA Hon. Fellow, 1976

Boston Museum of Science, Bradford Washburn Award, 1977

King's College, London, Fellow 1977

University of Moratuwa, Hon. D. Sc., 1979

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Engineering Award, 1981

Fellow, Institute of Robotics, Carnegie-Mellon, 1981

Marconi International Fellowship, 1982

Hon. Fellow, Instn. of Engineers, Sri Lanka, 1983

IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984

National Academy of Engineering (USA) Foreign Associate 1986

Vidya Jyothi Medal (Presidential Science Award) 1986

Charles A Lindbergh Award, 1987

Third World Academy of Sciences, Associate Fellow, 1987

Society of Satellite Professionals: Hall of Fame, 1987

University of Bath, D. Litt., 1988

Fellow, Intnl. Aerospace Hall of Fame, San Diego, CA, 1989

Fellow, Intnl. Space Hall of Fame, Alamagordo, NM 1989

Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Assn., Riyadh 1989

Hon. Life President, U.N. Association of Sri Lanka, 1990

Hon. Fellow, Ceylon College of Physicians, 1991

International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992

Lord Perry Award, 1992

Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, 1994

International Fantasy Award, 1952

HUGO (World Science Fiction Convention) 1956, 1974, 1980

NEBULA (SF Writers of America) 1973, 1974, 1979

UNESCO-Kalinga Prize, 1961

Aviation Space-Writer's Assn. Robert Ball Award, 1965

AAAS-Westinghouse Science Writing Prize, 1969

OSCAR Nomination for "2001" screenplay (with Stanley Kubrick), 1969

PLAYBOY Editorial Award, 1971, 1982

John W. Campbell Award, 1974

GALAXY Award, 1979

E.M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award (AAS), 1984

SF Writers of America "Grand Master," 1986

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