Archie Edmiston Roy

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(24 June 1924 – 27 December 2012) was

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in the

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Career

Professor Archie Edmiston Roy, was educated at

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and the

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. He was married to Frances with three sons; Dr. Archie W N Roy, Ian Roy and Dr. David Roy; and two grandchildren David and Fraser. Professor Roy was a Fellow of the

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, the

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, and the

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. He was also a Member and past President of the

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and Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research. He was also elected a member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and the Humanities. He was a Patron of the Churches Fellowship (Scotland) for Psychical and Spiritual Studies and a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. Archie Roy conducted research in

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 ...

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archaeoastronomy Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultur ...

psychical research Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near- ...

, and

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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. The Hungaria asteroid 5806 Archieroy, discovered by American astronomer

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was named in his honor in 1994. In 2004 he was awarded the ''Myers Memorial Medal'' for outstanding contributions to psychical research by the

Death

On 27 December 2012 Roy died at the

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at the age of 88. He was survived by his wife, three sons and two grandchildren.

Novels

* ''Deadlight'' (1968) * ''All Evil Shed Away'' (1970) * ''The Curtained Sleep'' (1971) * ''Sable Night'' (1973) * ''The Dark Host'' (1976) * ''Devil In The Darkness'' (1978)Devil in the Darkness
by Archie Roy, with a new introduction by

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, Valancourt Books

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'' (1990) * ''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)

References

External links

Review of ''The Eager Dead''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Archie 1924 births 2012 deaths Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Parapsychologists Scottish astronomers Scottish novelists Academics of the University of Glasgow Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish science fiction writers 20th-century Scottish novelists Scottish male novelists 20th-century British male writers People educated at Hillhead High School