Arthur C Clarke:
Career Highlights
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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It’s completely impossible; (2) It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing; (3) I said it was a good idea all along! ”
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– Arthur C Clarke
Auditor, H.M. Exchequer & Audit Department, UK Government, 1936-1941
Royal Air Force, UK (1941-46): Instructor, No 9 Radio School (Yatesbury), then Flt/Lt with MIT RadLab’s GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar, in charge of training programme
Assistant Editor, Physics Abstracts, Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1949-50
Chairman, British Interplanetary Society 1947-50, 1953
Originated: Lunar Mass-driver, in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950
Diving on Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and Indian Ocean with Mike Wilson, 1954-1964
Writing 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY with Stanley Kubrick, 1964-68
Lecturing in the US, covering Apollo Missions for CBS TV, etc. during 1957-1970
Vikram Sarabhai Professor, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, 1980
Writing and hosting three global TV series: Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World (1980), Arthur C Clarke’s World of Strange Powers (1984) and Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious Universe (1994-95)