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3 unusual facts about Robert Ettinger


Chemical brain preservation

In 1962 Robert Ettinger put forward the idea that a person's brain and body might be preserved using the best available techniques so that the person could reach future medical technology of sufficient advancement to restore health.

Fred and Linda Chamberlain

Mensa wrote in its newsletter that, second to the man credited with the original idea for cryonics, Robert Ettinger, the Chamberlains have contributed more than anyone to the field of cryonics.

Neil R. Jones

One young science fiction fan who read The Jameson Satellite and drew inspiration from the idea of cryonics was Robert Ettinger, who became known as the father of cryonics.



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