Armin Joseph Deutsch (January 25, 1918–November 11, 1969), was an American astronomer and science fiction writer.
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.
He established that Horace Babcock and Douglas W. N. Stibbs's oblique rotator model explained the anomalous variability of Ap stars, and later studied other anomalous hot stars, such as the blue stragglers; he suggested that both they and the Sun had rapidly rotating cores.
He was associate editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and a councillor of the American Astronomical Society from 1964 to 1967.
[2] His short story "A Subway Named Mobius", a fantasy based on mathematics and particularly topology published in December 1950, has been much anthologized and was nominated for a Retro Hugo in 2001; it placed 4th.