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. 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. Selected works Encounters with Parapsychology (1982, ) Parapsychology and Self-Deception in Science (1983, ) An Introduction to Parapsychology in the Context of Science (1983, ) Parapsychology in Retrospect (1987, ) Far Out in the New Age: The Subversion of Science by Cultural Communism (1995, ) Joyride To Infinity: A Scientific Study of the Doomsday Literature (2000, ) God.org Are You There?: On the Deeper Meaning of ESP (2001, ) Can We Win This War?: ISLAM (2002, ) References External links Robert A. McConnell, from the Parapsychological Association site Home page of R. A. McConnell 1914 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American physicists Parapsychologists Radar pioneers University of Pittsburgh faculty Carnegie Mellon University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff