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In 1952, Clarke won the International Fantasy Award's Non-Fiction category for The Exploration of Space. In 1956, Clarke won a Hugo Award for his short story, "The Star". Clarke won the UNESCO–Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science in 1961. He won the Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1963. He shared a 1969 Academy Award nomination with Stanley Kubrick in the category Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen for 2001: A Space Odyssey. The fame of 2001 was enough for the Command Module of the Apollo 13 spacecraft to be named "Odyssey". Clarke won the Nebula (1973) for his novella, A Meeting with Medusa. Clarke won both the Nebula (1973) and Hugo (1974) awards and the 1974 Jupiter Award for his novel, Rendezvous with Rama. Clarke won both the Nebula (1979) and Hugo (1980) awards for his novel, The Fountains of Paradise. In 1982, he won the Marconi Prize for innovation in communications and remote sensing in space. In 1985 the Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 7th SFWA Grand Master. In 1986, he was elected to the American National Academy of Engineering "For conception of geosynchronous communications satellites, and for other contributions to the use and understanding of space". In 1988, he was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath. Readers of the British monthly Interzone voted him the all-time second best science fiction author in 1988–1989. He received a CBE in 1989, and was knighted in 2000. Clarke's health did not allow him to travel to London to receive the latter honour personally from the Queen, so the United Kingdom's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka invested him as a Knight Bachelor at a ceremony in Colombo. In 1994, Clarke was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by law professor Glenn Reynolds. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Clarke in 1997, its second class of two deceased and two living persons. Among the living, Clarke and Andre Norton followed A. E. van Vogt and Jack Williamson. In 2000, he was named a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. The 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter is named in honour of Clarke's works. In 2003, Clarke was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology, where he appeared on stage via a 3-D hologram with a group of old friends including Jill Tarter, Neil Armstrong, Lewis Branscomb, Charles Townes, Freeman Dyson, Bruce Murray, and Scott Brown. In 2004, Clarke won the Heinlein Award for outstanding achievement in hard or science-oriented science fiction. On 14 November 2005 Sri Lanka awarded Clarke its highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya (The Pride of Sri Lanka), for his contributions to science and technology and his commitment to his adopted country. Clarke was the Honorary Board Chair of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, founded by Carol Rosin, and served on the Board of Governors of the American National Space Society, a space advocacy organisation founded by Wernher von Braun.
=== Named after Clarke ===
==== Awards ==== Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction writing, awarded annually in the United Kingdom. In 1986, Clarke provided a grant to fund the prize money (initially £1,000) for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. In 2001 the prize was increased to £2001, and its value now matches the year (e.g., £2005 in 2005).
In 2005 he lent his name to the inaugural Sir Arthur Clarke Award, for achievements in space, dubbed the "Space Oscars", awarded annually in the United Kingdom. His brother attended the awards ceremony, and presented an award specially chosen by Arthur (and not by the panel of judges who chose the other awards) to the British Interplanetary Society. Arthur C. Clarke Foundation awards: "Arthur C. Clarke Innovator's Award" and "Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award" The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Trophy Inter School Astronomy Quiz Competition, held in Sri Lanka every year and organised by the Astronomical Association of Ananda College, Colombo. The competition started in 2001 as "The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Trophy Inter School Astronomy Quiz Competition" and was renamed after his death. Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society
==== Other ==== An asteroid was named in Clarke's honour, 4923 Clarke (the number was assigned prior to, and independently of, the name – 2001, however appropriate, was unavailable, having previously been assigned to Albert Einstein). A species of ceratopsian dinosaur, discovered in Inverloch in Australia, was named after Clarke, Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei. The genus name may also be an allusion to his adopted country, Sri Lanka, one of whose former names is Serendib. The Learning Resource Centre at Richard Huish College, Taunton, which Clarke attended when it was Huish Grammar School, is named after him. Clarke was a distinguished vice-president of the H. G. Wells Society, being strongly influenced by Wells as a science fiction writer. Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, one of the major research institutes in Sri Lanka, is named after him. The main protagonist of the Dead Space series of video games, Isaac Clarke, takes his surname from Arthur C. Clarke, and his given name from Clarke's friendly rival and associate Isaac Asimov. An outer-circular orbital beltway in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was named Arthur C. Clarke Expressway in honour of Clarke. 'The Clarke Event' is a proposed name for GRB 080319B, a gamma-ray burst detected just hours before Clarke's death which set a new record for the most intrinsically bright object ever observed by humans in the universe. Clarke Montes, a mountain on Pluto's moon Charon, is named after Clarke.
== Selected works ==