Archie Roy

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Professor Archie Roy

Archie E. Roy is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.[1]

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; The Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society; Member and past president of the Society for Psychical Research; Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research.

Professor Roy is also a member of the International Astronomical Union, which recently honoured him by naming an asteroid after him. He has also been elected a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and the Humanities. He is a Patron of the Churches Fellowship (Scotland) for Psychical and Spiritual Studies and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. Archie Roy conducts research in astrodynamics, celestial mechanics, archaeoastronomy, psychical research and neural networks.

In addition Professor Roy has published 20 books, six of them novels, some 70 scientific papers and scores of articles. Several of his books have been published in the United Kingdom, United States, France, Russia, Italy and India.

In 2004 he was awarded the Myers Memorial Medal for outstanding contributions to psychical research by the Society for Psychical Research.[2]

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[edit] Novels

  • Deadlight (1968)
  • All Evil Shed Away (1970)
  • The Curtained Sleep (1971)
  • Sable Night (1973)
  • The Dark Host (1976)
  • Devil In The Darkness (1978)

[edit] Non-Fiction

  • Orbital Motion (1978)
  • Long-Term Dynamical Behavior of Natural and Artificial N-Body Systems (Ed.) (1989)
  • A Sense of Something Strange, Investigations Into the Paranormal (1992)
  • Oxford Illustrated encyclopedia of the Universe (Ed.) (1992)
  • Archives of the Mind (1996)
  • From Newton to Chaos (Ed. with Bonnie A Steves) (1995)
  • The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System: A Major Key to Solar Systems Studies (Ed. with Bonnie A Steves) (1998)
  • The Eager Dead (2008)

[edit] Sources

[edit] References

  1. ^ University of Glasgow
  2. ^ Award given to Professor Archie E Roy, founder of the SSPR (2004) Scottish Society for Psychical Research