Paul Birch (25 May 1956 – 4 July 2012)[1] was a British author, engineer and scientist, who worked in radioastronomy and satellite communications, and latterly wrote full-time.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby and Trinity College, Cambridge and worked for Marconi Defence Systems and Plessey Radar.
He was a former Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.
He also notably worked on orbital rings[2][3][4] and supramundane planets.[5][6]
He stood for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in an election taking 11.3% of the vote.[7] He was a Town Councillor in Cowes, Isle of Wight at the time of his death.
In 1982, Birch published a series of papers in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society which described orbital rings and described a form which he called Partial Orbital Ring System (PORS).[2][3][4]
References
edit- ^ "Mr Paul Birch". Iwcp.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b Birch, Paul, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - I", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 35, 1982, pp. 475–497. (pdf) (Accessed 6 April 2016).
- ^ a b Birch, Paul, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - II", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 36, 1982, 115. (pdf).
- ^ a b Birch, Paul, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - III", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 36, 1982, 231. (pdf).
- ^ Birch, Paul (2006). "Custom Planets - or Move over Slartibartfast" (PDF). Paper Read to Brit. Interplan. Soc/CEMS Syposium "Bringing Worlds to Life".
- ^ Birch, Paul (1991). "Supramundane Planets" (PDF). Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 44: 169–182. Bibcode:1991JBIS...44..169B. ISSN 0007-084X.
- ^ UKIP.html Archived 2008-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
External links
edit- www.paulbirch.net
- How to Move a Planet
- Birch, Paul (1991). "Terraforming Venus Quickly," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
- Birch, Paul (1993). "How to Spin a Planet," Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
- Orbital Rings II (zip file)
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