Armin Joseph Deutsch

Armin Joseph Deutsch (A. J. Deutsch, 1918–1969), was an American astronomer and a science fiction writer.

He received a degree in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1946. He is noted for the concept of Doppler tomography, which he presented at a symposium at Mount Wilson Observatory in 1958. He served as associate editor for the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics prior to 1966. From 1964 until 1967 he served as a councillor for the American Astronomical Society.

Note: There is an Armin Deutsch buried in the Hoisington City Cemetery, who lived January 20, 1920 until July 18, 2003.

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Armin J. Deutsch, A study of the spectrum variables of type A, 1947,
A. J. Deutsch, A Subway Named Mobius, Astounding Science Fiction, December 1950, won the 1951 Hugo Award (awarded in 2001) (See also The MTA Song)
Armin J. Deutsch, The Sun, in The New Astronomy, a Scientific American Book, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1955
A. Deutsch, W. Klemperer, eds., Space Age Astronomy: Proceedings of an International Symposium held August 7-9, 1961 at the California Institute of Technology in conjunction with the 11th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU, GA, 11), Academic Press, New York, NY, 1962
Armin J. Deutsch, The Ageing Stars of the Milky Way, in Stars and Galaxies: Birth, Ageing, and Death in the Universe (Thornton Page, editor), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1962
Boesgaard, Ann Merchant; Hagen, Wendy; Deutsch, Armin J. (posthumous) Circumstellar Envelopes of M Giants, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, p. 304, March 1976 (his last paper)