Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Sri Lankan Bhimani, who loved Mother Laka infinitely.
(To commemorate Sir Arthur C. Clarke's 104th birthday today)
(16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008)
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, who is universally famous in various fields as a scientist, science fiction writer, and an effective scientific forecaster, is most famous in the world for the possibility of intercontinental electronic communication using a trio of satellites, which he presented in a letter to the magazine "Wireless World" in 1945. Because of the concept of "Geostationary Satellite" which is a historical concept.
Arthur C. Clarke, who gained universal fame, was awarded Sri Lanka Abhimanya, Sri Lanka's highest citizenship award, in consideration of his contribution to the field of science and technology, having lived in Sri Lanka for most of his life after the 50s.
Mr. Arthur Charles Clark was born on December 16, 1917 in the village of "Minehead" in the county of Somerset in the western part of England to father "Charles Wright Clark" and mother "Nora Mary" (Wills). When Clark was just 13 years old, his father, an engineer for the Post Office Department, died prematurely. Due to this, as the eldest of four children, Clark had to bear the burden of the family at an early age. To erase his loneliness and loneliness, he used to make rockets with his friends on his father's farm and observe the night sky. Little Arthur received his basic education from "Huish Grammar School" in "Mine Head" and obtained an honors degree in physics from Keynes University. Clarke was a radar specialist in the Royal Air Force and demonstrated his abilities to the world in various aspects.
In 1948 he graduated from King's College with a first class honors degree in physics. Mr. Clark also joined the British Interplanetary Association and launched further research on future space travel, and a new twist to his scientific journey was the "Geostationary Satellite" concept introduced to the world by the "Wireless World" magazine in 1945. Based on that concept, today the whole world has managed to become a single communication network, a family of communication, which has brought him the fortune of being called the "Father of Satellite Communication".
Intersea Mr. Clark is a skilled diver. In 1954, he traveled to Australia's Great Barrier Reef on a ship called "Himalaya" and accidentally came to Sri Lanka. In 1956, Mr. Clark settled permanently in Sri Lanka because Sri Lanka became his favorite country. Mr. Clark, who became an honorary citizen of Sri Lanka in 1975, lived in Sri Lanka until his death on March 19, 2008. He refused invitations from foreign countries and never left Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke can be introduced as a great scholar who tried to take Sri Lanka science to the world.
Mr. Clark was awarded the "Kalinga" Award by UNESCO in 1982, the "Marconi" Award in 1982 for satellite communications, the Vidyajyothi Award in 1986, the "Knight" title awarded by the British Crown in 1998, and the "Pride of Sri Lanka" award in 2005, which is Sri Lanka's highest citizenship award. was given to Another special living tribute given to him is Arthur C. Clarke of Modern Technology, the statutory government institution for research development and training in modern technology.