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Robert Ettinger

1918 - 2011

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Ettinger is the 4,226th most popular writer (up from 4,751st in 2019), the 6,254th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,476th in 2019) and the 476th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Robert Ettinger ranks 4,226 out of 7,302. Before him are Ida B. Wells, Tobias Wolff, Florbela Espanca, Christiane Rochefort, Félicien Marceau, and Álvaro Cunqueiro. After him are Friedebert Tuglas, Max Lange, William Hazlitt, Karel Sabina, Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah, and Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov.

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Among people born in 1918, Robert Ettinger ranks 197. Before him are George Constantine, Hermann Zapf, Georgios Rallis, Anne Stine Ingstad, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Willy den Ouden. After him are André Pilette, Henri Chammartin, Tranquilo Cappozzo, Don McNeill, Abdallah Ibrahim, and Barry Morse. Among people deceased in 2011, Robert Ettinger ranks 243. Before him are M. F. Husain, Karen Khachaturian, Theodore Roszak, Luiz Bueno, Ida Fink, and Agustín García-Gasco Vicente. After him are Mario Echandi Jiménez, Kenneth Mars, Mikhail Simonov, Héctor Núñez, Dorian Gray, and Zhanna Prokhorenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Ettinger ranks 6,255 out of 20,380. Before him are Ron Silver (1946), Dorothy Stang (1931), Bessie Coleman (1892), Helen Merrill (1930), Gene Clark (1944), and Stephen Root (1951). After him are John Ostrom (1928), Marc Wright (1890), Phil Anselmo (1968), Richard Burgi (1958), Tom Noonan (1951), and John Wesley Powell (1834).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Ettinger ranks 476. Before him are James Redfield (1950), Theodore Roszak (1933), Francis Davis Millet (1848), Thomas Berger (1924), Ida B. Wells (1862), and Tobias Wolff (1945). After him are Glen A. Larson (1937), Marilynne Robinson (1943), Anne Tyler (1941), Pauline Kael (1919), William Gaddis (1922), and Margaret Weis (1948).

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