Robert Ettinger

Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 – July 23, 2011) was an American academic who is known as "the father of cryonics". He wrote the book The Prospect of Immortality (1962), giving birth to cryonics movement. Already in 1948, he had published a cryonics-related short story, called The Penultimate Trump.

He founded Cryonics Institute (CI) in 1976, and served its president until 2003. He died of natural causes in 2011, and was cryopreserved by CI. He was CI's 106th patient. His first and second wife, and his mother have also been cryopreserved.