Template:More citations needed Robert A. McConnell (1914–2006) was an American physicist and parapsychologist.
McConnell was born in Pennsylvania in 1914, and studied at Carnegie Institute of Technology obtaining a B.S. in physics in 1935 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1947. He worked as a physicist at a U.S. Naval aircraft factory and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation Laboratory. He also worked in radar moving target indication, iconoscope, and ultrasonic microwaves.<ref>Gale Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology: Robert A. McConnell</ref>
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in engineering physics. McConnell was the first president of the Parapsychological Association and a Fellow of the American Psychological Society. He was Research Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.<ref>Who was Robert A. McConnell? (1914 - 2006). Template:Archive url</ref>
Selected worksEdit
- Encounters with Parapsychology (1982, Template:ISBN)
- Parapsychology and Self-Deception in Science (1983, Template:ISBN)
- An Introduction to Parapsychology in the Context of Science (1983, Template:ISBN)
- Parapsychology in Retrospect (1987, Template:ISBN)
- Far Out in the New Age: The Subversion of Science by Cultural Communism (1995, Template:ISBN)
- Joyride To Infinity: A Scientific Study of the Doomsday Literature (2000, Template:ISBN)
- God.org Are You There?: On the Deeper Meaning of ESP (2001, Template:ISBN)
- Can We Win This War?: ISLAM (2002, Template:ISBN)