Редактирование: Robert Ettinger (раздел)

[[File:Robert Ettinger.jpg|thumb|right|Robert Ettinger c. late 1960s]]
'''Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger''' (December 4, 1918 – [[legal death]] 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 also wrote the books ''[[Man into Superman]]'' (1972) and ''[[Youniverse]]'' (2009).

He founded the Cryonics Society of Michigan (now the [[Immortalist Society]]) in 1967 (or 1966)<ref name="History">[https://www.benbest.com/cryonics/history.html A History of Cryonics]. [[Ben Best]]. benbest.com</ref> and served as its first president.<ref name="The Immortalist Society">[https://immortalistsociety.org/immortalist_society.htm The Immortalist Society]</ref><ref>[https://www.cryonics.org/media/ Media]. cryonics.org</ref> He founded the [[Cryonics Institute]] (CI) in 1976, and served as its president until 2003 ([[Andrea Foote]] was the president briefly in 1994).

He legally died of natural causes in 2011, and was [[Cryopreservation|cryopreserved]] by CI, becoming CI's 106th patient.<ref>[https://cryonics.org/case-report/106-2/ CI Case 106]. cryonics.org</ref> His mother ([[Rhea Ettinger|Rhea]]), his first wife ([[Elaine Ettinger|Elaine]]), and his second wife ([[Mae Ettinger|Mae]]) also have been cryopreserved. Robert had two children with Elaine: [[David Ettinger|David]] (born 1951) and Shelley (born 1954).