Paul_Birch_(writer)
Paul Birch (writer)
British author, engineer, and scientist (1956–2012)
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]