Robert Ettinger

Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 – July 23, 2011) was an American academic. He was known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.

Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003.

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