Career

Professor Archie Edminston Roy (born 1924 June 24), was educated at Hillhead High School

Hillhead High School

Hillhead High School is a day school located in Glasgow, Scotland, on Oakfield Avenue, neighbouring the University of Glasgow. It is one of the largest schools in Glasgow.Until 1976 it was a selective school...

 and the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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. He is married to Frances with three sons; Dr. Archie W N Roy, Ian Roy and David Roy.

Professor Roy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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, the Royal Astronomical Society

Royal Astronomical Society

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, and the British Interplanetary Society

British Interplanetary Society

The British Interplanetary Society founded in 1933 by Philip E. Cleator, is the oldest space advocacy organisation in the world whose aim is exclusively to support and promote astronautics and space exploration.-Structure:...

. He is also a Member and past president of the Society for Psychical Research

Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research is a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand "events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area" and to "examine allegedly paranormal phenomena...

 and Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research.

The asteroid (5806) Archieroy is named after him, with a registration in the IAU

International Astronomical Union

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's Minor planet center

Minor Planet Center

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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

Astrodynamics

Orbital mechanics or astrodynamics is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft. The motion of these objects is usually calculated from Newton's laws of motion and Newton's law of universal gravitation. It...

, celestial mechanics

Celestial mechanics

Celestial mechanics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects. The field applies principles of physics, historically classical mechanics, to astronomical objects such as stars and planets to produce ephemeris data. Orbital mechanics is a subfield which focuses on...

, archaeoastronomy

Archaeoastronomy

Archaeoastronomy is the study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures." Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of ancient astronomy, as modern...

, psychical research, and neural networks

Neural Networks

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In addition Roy has published 20 books, six of them novels, some 70 scientific papers and scores of articles. 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

Society for Psychical Research

The Society for Psychical Research is a non-profit organisation in the United Kingdom. Its stated purpose is to understand "events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal by promoting and supporting important research in this area" and to "examine allegedly paranormal phenomena...

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Novels

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

Non-fiction

• The Foundations of Astrodynamics (1965)
• 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)

External links

• Review of The Eager Dead