Arthur Clarke Foundation Awardees (original) (raw)

Arthur C. Clarke Innovator’s Award:

2011: Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla, for his ambitious career-long pursuit of three “important problems” near and dear to the heart of Sir Arthur Clarke – the Internet, clean energy, and space.

2010: Guiliano Berretta, for inspirational leadership in the evolution of European telecommunications.

2009: Steven Squyres for pioneering work in the exploration of the planet Mars.

2007/2008: Peter Diamandis, for pioneering work in the promotion of personal spaceflight (Cosmos Club)

2006: Robert T. Bigalow, for pioneering development of versatile space habitats (Cosmos Club)

2005: Dr. Brad Edwards, for creating a company and taking the lead in the design of a space elevator that could move cargo to the Clarke Orbit from the Earth’s Surface 2005 (Cosmos Club)

2003: DK. Sachdev and Joseph Campanella, for designing and implementing the world’s first audio broadcasting satellite (Kreeger Art Museum 2003)

The Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award

2011: Freeman Dyson, Ph.D. renown physicist and mathematician, for his exceptional career across multiple disciplines, including quantum electrodynamics, invention of the Dyson series, his 20th Century work in the use of nuclear power for space flight, and design of the TRIGA, a small, inherently safe nuclear reactor used throughout the world for the production of isotopes.

2010: Simon P. “Pete” Worden, for pioneering work in astrophysics, and in military and civilian space missions.

2009: Ray Kurzweil, for lifetime achievement as an inventor and futurist in computer-based technologies

2007/2008: David W. Thompson, for visionary leadership in creative space systems and missions (Cosmos Club)

2006: Walter Cronkite, for bringing the wonders of space into our lives (Cosmos Club)

2005: Ben Bova, Noted Science Fiction Writer (Cosmos Club)

2004: Claude Goumy, former Chairman of the Board of Marconi-Matra, Founder of EADS (Cosmos Club)

2003: Rober Berry, Chairman of the Board, Space Systems, Loral (Kreeger Art Museum)

2002: Santiago Astrain, first Director General of Intelsat (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)