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.

Bibliography

* Armin J. Deutsch, "A study of the spectrum variables of type A", 1947,
* A. J. Deutsch, " [http://www.iblist.com/book12352.htm 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) " [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1976BAAS....8..304B&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=41e14f475d00381 Circumstellar Envelopes of M Giants] ", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, p. 304, March 1976 (his last paper)

Honors

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