Archie Roy
{{Short description|Scottish astronomer}}
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| name = Archie Roy
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| caption = Archie Edmiston Roy
Machrie Moor 1982
| birth_date = 24 June 1924
| birth_place = Yoker, Glasgow, Scotland
| death_date = 27 December 2012 (aged 88)
| death_place = Drumchapel Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland
| spouse =
| nationality = Scottish
| field = Astronomy
| work_institutions = Shawlands Academy
University of Glasgow
| alma_mater = Hillhead High School
University of Glasgow
| doctoral_advisor = Prof W M Smart
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = The Mirror Theorem in Celestial Mechanics
| prizes = Myers Memorial Medal (SPR)
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Archie Edmiston Roy FRSE, FRAS (24 June 1924 – 27 December 2012){{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-20858029|title=Academic and writer Archie E Roy dies aged 88|publisher=bbc.co.uk|date=2012-12-28|accessdate=2012-12-29|work=BBC News}} was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.[http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/people/archie University of Glasgow] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811224123/http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/people/archie |date=11 August 2007 }}
Career
Professor Archie Edmiston Roy, was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow. He was married to Frances with three sons; Dr. Archie W N Roy, Ian Roy and Dr. David Roy;{{Cite web|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/david-roy|title=Staff Profile|date=2015-01-16|website=www.newcastle.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2019-12-28}} and two grandchildren David and Fraser.{{cite web|url=http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/207783-astronomy-professor-and-glasgow-ghostbuster-archie-roy-dies/ |title=Astronomy professor and 'Glasgow ghostbuster' Archie Roy dies | News | Glasgow | STV |accessdate=2013-03-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118075758/http://local.stv.tv/glasgow/207783-astronomy-professor-and-glasgow-ghostbuster-archie-roy-dies/ |archivedate=18 January 2013 |df=dmy }}
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.
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, 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.
The Hungaria asteroid 5806 Archieroy, discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell was named in his honor in 1994. In 2004 he was awarded the Myers Memorial Medal for outstanding contributions to psychical research by the Society for Psychical Research.Award given to Professor Archie E Roy, founder of the SSPR (2004) [http://www.sspr.org.uk/Articles.html Scottish Society for Psychical Research]Jackie Jones-Hunt, Moses and Jesus: The Shamans, page 6 (O-Books, 2011). {{ISBN|978-1-84694-471-0}}
Death
On 27 December 2012 Roy died at the Drumchapel Hospital 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)[http://www.valancourtbooks.com/devil-in-the-darkness-1978.html Devil in the Darkness] by Archie Roy, with a new introduction by Greg Gbur, 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
{{reflist|30em|refs=
|title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (5806) Archieroy
|last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page = 490
|date = 2007
|isbn = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5459 |chapter = (5806) Archieroy }}
}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081225014211/http://www.nthposition.com/theeagerdead.php Review of The Eager Dead]
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Category:Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:British parapsychologists
Category:Academics of the University of Glasgow
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Category:Scottish science fiction writers
Category:20th-century Scottish novelists
Category:Scottish male novelists