Hugo Gernsback was born on August 16, 1884 in Bonnevoie, an area south-east of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. He was first first of all a technology pioneer, an inventor who at the end of his life held 80 patents. He founded many magazines in various fields, from electronics to science fiction, founded the radio station WRNY and was a pioneer of amateur radio. In 1926, Hugo Gernsback founded “Amazing Stories”, the first magazine dedicated to the genre he called “science fiction”. In 1953 for the first time the Hugo Award was awarded for the best science fiction works of the year. Gernsback died on August 19, 1967 in New York.