1. Itzhak "Ben" Bentov was an Israeli American scientist, inventor, mystic and author.
16 Facts About Itzhak Bentov
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Itzhak Bentov was an early proponent of what has come to be referred to as consciousness studies and authored several books on the subject.
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Itzhak Bentov was born in Humenne, Czechoslovakia, in 1923.
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Itzhak Bentov narrowly escaped being sent to the camps and moved to British Palestine, first living on the Shoval kibbutz in the Negev.
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Itzhak Bentov designed Israel's first rocket for the War of Independence.
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Itzhak Bentov immigrated to the United States in 1954, and settled in Massachusetts.
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Itzhak Bentov began with a workshop in the basement of a Catholic church in Belmont, Massachusetts in the 1960s.
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In 1967, he built the steerable heart catheter and attracted the attention of businessman John Abele, with whom Itzhak Bentov founded the Medi-Tech corporation in 1969.
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Itzhak Bentov had a chemistry lab, he had an electronics lab, he had a miller so he could mill and shape steel or wood or plastic, he had an extruder so he could work with polymers.
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Itzhak Bentov was fascinated by consciousness, in particular how it related to physiology.
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Itzhak Bentov was a very inventive person, but a person who was not the type you would normally think would be an inventor.
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Itzhak Bentov was a very spiritual person, he did meditation, he was a very soft-spoken person.
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Itzhak Bentov was interested in how the brain worked and actually attached electrodes to his head which were connected to a function generator in which he could change the wave shape and the power and learned about how the brain interprets these different frequencies.
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Itzhak Bentov's invention was a seismographic device to record the heartbeat, in particular the aorta's reverberations.
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Itzhak Bentov had a daughter, Sharona Ben-Tov Muir, with his first wife, whom he would divorce.
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Itzhak Bentov died on May 25,1979, as a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 191 that crashed shortly after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.