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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Ettinger has received more than 141,517 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert Ettinger is the 3,428th most popular writer (down from 3,208th in 2019), the 4,514th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,194th in 2019) and the 388th most popular American Writer.

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  • 140k

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  • 50.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Ettinger ranks 3,428 out of 5,755. Before him are Nikolay Novikov, Zulfiya, Gabrielle Wittkop, Laura Mancinelli, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, and Émile Faguet. After him are Anar Rzayev, Breyten Breytenbach, Doria Shafik, Johann Georg von Hahn, Johann Baptist Allgaier, and Song Yu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Robert Ettinger ranks 157. Before him are Helen Stephens, Hank Jones, Jelle Zijlstra, Abraham Robinson, Oles Honchar, and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad. After him are Pyotr Masherov, Venetia Burney, Suzanne Flon, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Arthur Chung, and Shinobu Hashimoto. Among people deceased in 2011, Robert Ettinger ranks 196. Before him are Bhupen Hazarika, José Alencar, Hind Rostom, Shigeo Yaegashi, Vang Pao, and Josefa Iloilo. After him are Bhimsen Joshi, Ingvar Wixell, Jiří Dienstbier, Harry Morgan, Karen Khachaturian, and Arnfinn Bergmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Ettinger ranks 4,514 out of 18,182. Before him are Cynthia Rhodes (1956), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981), Tim Kang (1973), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), MC Hammer (1962), and Larry Hankin (1940). After him are Laura Innes (1957), Bruce Rauner (1957), Childe Hassam (1859), Seann William Scott (1976), Branscombe Richmond (1955), and Joe Henderson (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Ettinger ranks 388. Before him are Richard Yates (1926), Charles Fort (1874), Vince Gilligan (1967), Michael Cristofer (1945), Lillian Hellman (1905), and Francis Scott Key (1779). After him are Anne Tyler (1941), Marianne Moore (1887), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Varian Fry (1907), Carl Bernstein (1944), and Herman Wouk (1915).

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