Gustaf Benjamin Strömberg (16 December 1882 – 30 January 1962) was a Swedish-born American astronomer who worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.

In his works he suggested that human memories could be immortal[11] and explained it using the idea that there were waves in space and time that could not be destroyed.

He also suggested that all living cells were surrounded by fields, although his explanation was found to be confusing and difficult to understand.

George Gamow, for instance, in a review[12][13] pointed out that wave functions did not have physical world counterparts.

[14][15][16][17][18] Strömberg attempted to settle some of the objections, particularly those raised by biologists, in his next book The Searchers (1948), in which he presented his ideas in the form of a story with the central character being a Russian Marxist refugee with an open mind, named Boris Charkoff, who attends the discussions of a society called the Searchers.