The Legacy of Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008) 15th Death Anniversary
SLLS 110:
The Legacy of Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)
by Dr Kavan Ratnatunga
Date: Sunday, 19th March 2023 at 1300 GMT/1830 SLTime
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is the world-famous scientist who made Sri Lanka his home for over 50 of his 90 years. Many persons worldwide inspired deeply by his science and science fiction books, knew of Sri Lanka as the far-distant exotic land where Clarke lived. He is most famous for the 1945 suggestion for global communications with geostationary satellites in what is now called the Clarke Orbit. The 1968 Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Clarke’s Film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is one of the Greatest Movies of All Time. He passed away 15 years ago on 2008 March 19th and will remain in the memory of all who were fortunate to know him. His enormous contributions to humanity will clearly be cherished forever. He inspired the careers of many Lankan Astronomers.
Dr Kavan Ratnatunga has a 1983 Ph.D. from Australian National University, His 25-year career in Astrophysical research continued at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and ended at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Career highlights include the First in-situ sample of Field Halo K-giants in Galactic Halo (1983), and the First Quad Gravitational Lens discovered with NASA Hubble Space Telescope (1995). He retired back to Lanka in 2005. His current interests include increasing the information on Lanka on the Internet via his domain lakdiva.org and archaeology with a special interest in numismatics, including silver coins from the Great Basses shipwreck that Arthur Clarke was associated with discovering.
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