Hugo Gernsback (nonfiction)

Hugo Gernsback (/ˈɡɜːrnzˌbæk/; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher–although not as a writer–were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction".[1] In his honour, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".