Редактирование: Karl Werner

[[File:Karl Werner.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Karl Werner]]
'''Karl Werner''' is a former New York industrial designer who coined the word "[[cryonics]]" in 1965.<ref name="History">[https://www.benbest.com/cryonics/history.html A History of Cryonics]. benbest.com</ref> "Cryonics" is a portmanteau of "cryo-" and "bionics".<ref name="Cryonics 2018 #3 page 26">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2018-03.pdf ''Cryonics'' 2018 #3] (page 26)</ref> The new word was used in the name of the [[Cryonics Society of New York]] that was founded by Harold Costello, [[Curtis Henderson]], [[Saul Kent]], [[James Sutton]], and Werner in 1965.<ref name="History" /><ref>[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2009-03.pdf Impressions of Curtis Henderson]. ''[[Cryonics (magazine)|Cryonics]]'' 2009 #3 (page 8 of the file)</ref> Three years later, Werner drifted away from cryonics and became involved in Scientology.<ref name="Cryonics 2018 #3 pages 31-32">[https://www.alcor.org/docs/cryonics-magazine-2018-03.pdf ''Cryonics'' 2018 #3] (pages 31–32)</ref> He left Scientology after having been active in it for four or five years.<ref name="CryoCare">[http://www.cryocare.org/index.cgi?subdir=&url=ccrpt8.html The Man Who Named Cryonics]. ''CryoCare Report'' #8. July 1996</ref> He has not returned to cryonics, though he remains proud to be the one who named it.<ref name="CryoCare" />

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== External links ==
* [http://www.cryocare.org/index.cgi?subdir=&url=ccrpt8.html The Man Who Named Cryonics]. ''CryoCare Report'' #8. July 1996
* LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-werner-36a72127 Karl Werner]

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