Robert Ettinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Ettinger

American academic, trans humanist and cryonics proponent

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1918

Place of Birth: Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jul-2011

Profession: naturalist, writer, physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 – July 23, 2011) was an American academic, 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 served as the groups' president.
His body has been cryopreserved, like the bodies of his first and second wives, and his mother.