# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-ettinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:55.489Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-ettinger"
name: "Robert Ettinger"
slug: "robert-ettinger"
description: "Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger was an American academic, known as \"the father of cryonics\" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality."
tagline: "American academic, trans humanist and cryonics proponent (1918–2011)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1918-12-04"
deathDate: "2011-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump