2010/11/28 by Jeremy Shears, Shears, Jeremy
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #History and Developments in Astronomy #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #astro-ph.SR #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.6051
36 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of the British Astronomical Association. A new Figure 15 has been added
openalex publication_date 2010/11/28 · arxiv created 2011/04/22 · arxiv updated 2011/04/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Felix de Roy (1883-1942), an internationality recognised amateur astronomer, made significant contributions to variable star research. As an active observer, he made some 91,000 visual estimates of a number of different variable stars. A Belgian national, he took refuge in England during World War 1. While there, de Roy became well enough known to later serve as Director of the BAA Variable Star Section for seventeen years. Through this office, and his connections with other organisations around the world, he encouraged others to pursue the observation of variable stars. Not merely content to accumulate observational data, de Roy also analysed the data and published numerous papers.