Archie Roy

Education

Professor Archie Edmiston Roy, was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow.

Career

Professor Roy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the British Interplanetary Society. He was also a Member and past President of the Society for Psychical Research and Founding President of The Scottish Society for Psychical Research. The asteroid (5806) Archieroy is named after him, with a registration in the International Astronomical Union"s Minor planet center.

Archie Roy conducted research in astrodynamics, celestial mechanics, archaeoastronomy, psychical research, and neural networks.

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. On 27 December 2012 Roy died at the Drumchapel Hospital at the age of 88.

The Foundations of Astrodynamics (1965)

Orbital Motion (1978)

Long-Term Dynamical Behavior of Natural and Artificial North-Body Systems (Editor) (1989)

A Sense of Something Strange, Investigations Into the Paranormal (1990)

Oxford Illustrated encyclopedia of the Universe (Editor) (1992)

Archives of the Mind (1996)

From Newton to Chaos (Editor with Bonnie A Steves) (1995)

The Dynamics of Small Bodies in the Solar System: A Major Key to Solar Systems Studies (Editor with Bonnie A Steves) (1998)

The Eager Dead (2008).

Works

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  • Devil in the Darkness

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  • All Evil Shed Away
  • Deadlight
  • Devil in the Darkness by A. E. Roy (1987-04-30)

Membership

He has also been 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.