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Arthur Charles Clarke
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16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008
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English writer, inventor, futurist Arthur Charles Clarke was born on December 16, 1917 in Somerset, Great Britain. From the age of ten he began to be interested in fiction. When the boy was 13, his father died, it greatly influenced the further work of Arthur. After graduating from high school, he began working as an auditor in the London Treasury. In 1936 he became a member of the British Interplanetary Society, which promoted space travel. He was later elected chairman twice in the 1940s and 1950s.
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English writer, inventor, futurist Arthur Charles Clarke was born on December 16, 1917 in Somerset, Great Britain. From the age of ten he began to be interested in fiction. When the boy was 13, his father died, it greatly influenced the further work of Arthur. After graduating from high school, he began working as an auditor in the London Treasury. In 1936 he became a member of the British Interplanetary Society, which promoted space travel. He was later elected chairman twice in the 1940s and 1950s.
During World War II, he was drafted to serve in the British Air Force, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant and helped develop a radar system to make it easier for pilots to navigate in bad weather conditions. After the war, he graduated with honors from King's College London.
In 1956, Arthur moved to Sri Lanka, where he lived for the rest of his life.
In 1964, Clarke, along with Stanley Kubrick, began developing the script for the film.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" . The tape was awarded the Oscar, and later it became a cult. Based on the script, Arthur C. Clarke wrote the famous tetralogy Space Odyssey. Also among his novels are “The End of Childhood”, “The City and the Stars”, “Fountains of Paradise”, the cycle “Rama”.
Arthur made a huge contribution to science, proposing to organize a global communication system using a system of satellites in geostationary orbits. We owe this system to the Internet.
In 1962, Arthur Clarke contracted polio, and in 1984, the consequences of the disease made themselves felt by chaining him to a wheelchair.
In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II awarded Arthur C. Clarke the Order of Knighthood “For Services to Literature”.
The great scientist and science fiction died on March 19, 2008. The cause of his death was respiratory problems as a result of post-polio syndrome.