Robert Ettinger
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger ( born December 4, 1918 in Atlantic City, New Jersey; † July 23, 2011 in Clinton Township, Michigan) was an American high school teacher. He became known for his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality as the father of cryonics.
Life
Ettinger was born the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He studied mathematics and physics at the Wayne State University and worked as a teacher at the university and at a college in Michigan.
During World War II seriously wounded, he received the Purple Heart. Ettinger was married twice, from the first marriage produced two children.
Cryonics
In his youth awareness Ettinger was an avid reader of science fiction stories and revive fascinated by the idea of people using medical future after death. The body is to be preserved by low temperatures, to technical progress allows a repair of the organ damage and " reboot " of life in the preserved body. In 1947, he makes himself known with the low-temperature experiments of the Frenchman Jean Rostand. Ettinger 's namesake and also the first recipient of the Robert Ettinger Medal for outstanding services to the cryonics.
Works
- The Prospect of Immortality, 1962
- Man Into Superman, 1972
- Youniverse, 2009