Armin Joseph Deutsch

Armin Joseph Deutsch (January 25, 1918–November 11, 1969), was an American astronomer and science fiction writer.

Life and career Deutsch was born in Chicago and earned a BS from the University of Arizona in 1940 and, after wartime service as an instructor at the Army Air Force at Chanute Field in Illinois, a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1946 with a dissertation on the spectra of A-type variable stars.

As a graduate student, he was an instructor at Yerkes Observatory. After completing his doctorate, he was an instructor at Ohio State University for one year and then in 1947 moved to Harvard University, where he was promoted to lecturer in 1949. Beginning in 1951 he was on the staff of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatory in California; he died in Pasadena in 1969.

Selected scientific publications Armin J. Deutsch, "The Sun", in The New Astronomy, a Scientific American Book, New York: Simon and Schuster, 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), New York: Academic Press, 1962 Armin J. Deutsch, "The Ageing Stars of the Milky Way", in Stars and Galaxies: Birth, Ageing, and Death in the Universe, ed. Thornton Leigh Page, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962 Ann Merchant Boesgaard, Wendy Hagen, Armin J. Deutsch, "Circumstellar Envelopes of M Giants", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, p. 304, March 1976 (his last paper, published posthumously)

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