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Robert Wayne Prehoda (July 7, 1931 – June 11, 2009)^[1] was an American chemist and futurist. He participated in the first cryonic suspension of a human being, that of James Bedford. He had a wife, Aline.

• What are the effects of current automation trends in the oil industry on management, unions and the employees?, University of Tulsa, 1957
• Technological forecasting methodology, 1966
• Designing the future: the role of technological forecasting, Chilton Book Co., 1967
• Extended youth: the promise of gerontology, Putnam, 1968
• Suspended animation: the research possibility that may allow man to conquer the limiting chains of time, Chilton Book Co., 1969
• Your Next Fifty Years, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1980 (ISBN 9780441952212)

• Interview with Prehoda, Cryonics Reports, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1969
• "Alcohol as Fuel" (letter to the editor), Science News, Vol. 100, No. 6 (Aug. 7, 1971), p. 88