Armin Joseph Deutsch

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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.

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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, was nominated for the 1951 Hugo Award (awarded in 2001) (See also M.T.A.)
  • 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)

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The Deutsch crater on the far side of the Moon is named for him.

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