Paul Birch (25 May 1956 – 4 July 2012) 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 and supramundane planets.
He stood for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) in an election taking 11.3% of the vote. 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).
References
- "Mr Paul Birch". Iwcp.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ 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).
- ^ Birch, Paul, "Orbital Ring Systems and Jacob's Ladders - II", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 36, 1982, 115. (pdf).
- ^ 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
- 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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