Robert Ettinger
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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.
Photo of Ettinger taken in the 1940s
Neil R. Jones
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Neil Ronald Jones was an American writer who worked for the state of New York. His first story, "The Death's Head Meteor," was published in Air Wonder Stories in 1930, possibly recording the first use
Robert Ettinger
…the hope of future revival. Ettinger grew up reading Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories. Ettinger was particularly affected when he was 12 years old by a Neil R. Jones story, "The Jameson Satellite," which appeared in the July 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, in which one Professor Jameson had his corpse sent into earth…
Neil R. Jones as pictured in Air Wonder Stories, January 1930
"The Planet of the Double Sun," the second entry in the Professor Jameson series, was the cover story in the February 1932 issue of Amazing Stories
"Time's Mausoleum," the fifth Professor Jameson story, was cover-featured on the December 1933 issue of Amazing Stories
"The Music-Monsters" was the last Professor Jameson story to be published in Amazing Stories, taking the cover of the April 1938 issue