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SIR ARTHUR CHARLES CLARKE
Pages 34-39

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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 34 3/23/10 3:42:06 PM
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... Early on, he developed an interest in science and technology, especially astronomy, and while still in grammar school, he built a telescope to "map the Moon." At age 13, young Arthur discovered science fiction and became a voracious reader of stories of space exploration and life on other planets in the very popular "pulp" magazines. Thus the interests that would shape his life took hold in his mind when he was still very young.
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... Clarke of the British Interplanetary Society." More than 60 years ago, I underlined this passage and the sentence that followed: "In an article published in "Wireless World" in the October 1945 issue he advocated a system of three space stations revolving in the same orbit (and forming a triangle with the Earth at its center) for worldwide radio and television coverage." This was an audacious idea, and I remember wondering if I would be alive when Clarke's proposal was implemented.
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... The most important was nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, probably based on his long standing advocacy of international collaboration in space exploration as "an alternative to armed conflict." In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to literature. Arthur's achievements were also honored in the Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 37 3/23/10 3:42:06 PM
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... He was an expert ping pong player, and he loved scuba diving. He married Marilyn Mayfield in 1953, but the marriage was dissolved in 1964.
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