Robert oettinger biography
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Robert oettinger biography
Robert Ettinger
American academic
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (; December 4, 1918[1] – July 23, 2011[2]) was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.[3][4]
Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute[5] and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003 served as the groups' president.
His body has been cryopreserved, like the bodies of his first and second wives, and his mother.
Personal background
Ettinger was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.[6] Raised Jewish, he later attended Protestant Unitarian[7] church services[8] before becoming an atheist.[9] He served as a second lieutenantinfantryman in the United States Army during World War II.
Severely wounded in battle in Germany, he received the Purple Heart[1] and recovered after several years s