Walter Runkel
Walter E. Runkel (January 4, 1916 – legal death October 7, 1991)[1] was a long-time officer of the Cryonics Institute (CI) and one of the four founding members of it.[2][3] He was the technical director of a television network studio in Detroit.[3]
A hands-on person good with tools, he helped with the construction and outfitting of the original CI facility.[3] He owned an apple orchard and developed a new subspecies of apple, the "Runkel apple".[3]
The fifth patient of CI, he was cryopreserved.[4] The main building of CI is named the Erfurt Runkel Building in honor of Jack Erfurt and him.[2]
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- ↑ Walter E Runkel. Find a Grave
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 About CI
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 YouTube: COPL Remembrance of the Resurrectables 2020 (at 17:40)
- ↑ Cryonics Institute Patient List. cryonics.org