Paul Birch

Who was Paul Birch?

Paul Birch was a British author, engineer and scientist, who has 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 Habitats.

He stood for the United Kingdom Independence Party 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 Journal of the British Interplanetary Society which described orbital rings and described a form which he called Partial Orbital Ring System.