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 university professor . He became known as the father of cryonics with his book The Prospect of Immortality , published in 1962 . In 1976 he founded the Cryonics Institute in Detroit .
Life
Ettinger was born the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He studied math and physics at Wayne State University and was a teacher at that university and at a college in Michigan .
After being seriously wounded in World War II, he was awarded the Purple Heart . Ettinger was married twice; the first marriage has two children.
Cryonics
In his youth, Ettinger was an avid reader of science fiction stories and was fascinated by the idea of resuscitating people after death using future medical technology . The corpse should be preserved at low temperatures until technical progress enables the organ damage to be repaired and life to be “restarted” in the preserved body. In 1947 he familiarized himself with the low-temperature experiments of the French Jean Rostand .
Ettinger is named after and at the same time the first recipient of the Robert Ettinger Medal for outstanding achievements in cryonics.
Works
- The Prospect of Immortality, 1962
- Man Into Superman, 1972
- Youniverse, 2009
Web links
- Death of the immortal. on spiegel.de
- Robert Ettinger on cryonics.org
- Robert Ettinger, founder of the cryonics movement, dies at 92 , obituary in The Washington Post (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ First award of the Robert Ettinger Medal at the event "Applied Cryobiology - Scientific Symposium on Cryonics" in 2010. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 12, 2013 ; Retrieved October 23, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ettinger, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ettinger, Robert Chester Wilson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlantic City , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2011 |
| Place of death | Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan |