[verification needed] John William Bandler OC FRSC FCAE (9 November 1941 – 28 September 2023) was a Canadian professor,[1] engineer,[1] entrepreneur,[1] artist, speaker, playwright,[2][3][4] and author of fiction and nonfiction.

[13] The only child of parents who escaped from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Cyprus, from where they were subsequently evacuated along with other Jewish refugees in 1941, Bandler was born in Jerusalem.

He entered Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1960, graduating in 1963 with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering; and in 1967 with a Ph.D. in Microwaves.

In 2018, marking a quarter century since his discovery of space mapping this paper was re-set and reprinted in IEEE Microwave Magazine.

[20] In 2016, Rayas-Sánchez reviewed the state of the art of aggressive space mapping, a methodology pioneered by Bandler and his team.