Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
The famed writer and visionary died on march, the 19th,at a hospital near his home in Sri Lanka.
Most famous for expanding his short story « The Sentinel » into a novel and screenplay that served as the basis for Stanley’s Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the British-born Clarke authored more than 100 books involving space, science, and science fiction, and he’s often credited with inventing the concept of satellite communications. He first proposed the idea in 1945 with a paper called « Extra-terrestrial Relays. »
Today, the International Astronomical Union refers to a geostationary satellite orbit as The Clarke Orbit.
Having fought post-polio syndrome since the 1960s – a condition that forced him into a wheelchair at times – Clarke checked into the hospital four days ago, and according to his personal secretary, he died after experiencing a cardio-respiratory attack.
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