Armin Joseph Deutsch (A. J. Deutsch, 1918–1969), was an 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.

Bibliography

• Armin J. Deutsch, A study of the spectrum variables of type A, 1947, ASIN: B0006EUJ88
• A. J. Deutsch, A Subway Named Mobius, Astounding Science Fiction, December 1950, won the 1951 Hugo Award (awarded in 2001)
• 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

Honors

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