CBE (Queen's Honours List, 1989)
KBE (Queen's Honours List, 1998)
Chancellor, International Space University (1989-present)
Honorary Chancellor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
(1979-present)
1917 Dec 16, Minehead, UK: Married Marilyn Mayfield
1953; divorced 1964.
Residence: Colombo, Sri Lanka (since 1956)
First non-citizen in Sri Lanka to be granted "Resident
Guest" status, 1975.
Author of over 70 books, 500 articles and short
stories.
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, Inst. of Elect. Engineers,
1949-50.
Diving on Great Barrier Reef & Indian Ocean 1954-
Vikram Sarabhai Professor, PRL, Ahmedabad, India,
1980
Writing “2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY” with Stanley Kubrick,
1964-68.
Lecturing in US, and covering Apollo Missions for
CBS TV, 1957-70.
Playing Leonard Woolf in The Village in the Jungle
1979.
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 Royal Television Society's “Alistair Cooke
Lecture”, 1992
Chairman, British Interplanetary Society 1947-50,
1953.
Hon. Chairman, Society of Satellite Professionals
International (SSPI)
President, British Science Fiction Association
Life Member: Assn. of British Science Writers
Hon. Vice President, H.G. Wells Society
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
National Space Society (USA)
Space Generation Foundation (USA)
IAU (SETI) Commission 51
The Planetary Society (USA)
Lindbergh Award Nominations Committee (USA)