Jor-El

I am Kryptonian and the biological father of Superman and the husband of Lara Lor-Van.I was a highly respected scientist on the planet Krypton before its destruction. I foresaw the planet's fate, but was unable to convince my colleagues in time to save our race. I was, however, able to save my infant son, Kal-El, sending him in a homemade rocket ship to the planet Earth just moments before Krypton's destruction.
Detailed History
I was Krypton's leading brilliant scientific genius, having been the inventor of, among things, the "Jor-El" (a hovercar) and the discoverer of the Phantom Zone (and the inventor of the Phantom Zone projector). I lived in Krypton's major city of Kryptonopolis. Even before my birth, the El family was renowned across Krypton for its various contributions to Kryptonian society. My ancestors included: Val-El, a famous explorer; Sul-El, the inventor of Krypton's first telescope; Tala-El, the author of Krypton's first planetary constitution; Hatu-El, the inventor of Krypton's first electromagnet and electric motor; and Gam-El, the father of modern Kryptonian architecture. I had two brothers: Zor-El, who lived in Argo City and eventually became the father of Kara Zor-El, alias Supergirl, and an identical twin brother named Nim-El, who lived in Kandor. My father was established as Jor-El I, and my mother as Nimda An-Dor. I eventually met and married Lara Lor-Van, an astronaut in Krypton's fledgling space program (which was soon permanently grounded after Jax-Ur blew up one of Krypton's inhabited moons), and we soon had an infant son, Kal-El. When Krypton began experiencing a series of earthquakes, I investigated, and soon discovered that Krypton's core was greatly unstable, and would eventually explode, taking the entire planet and its populace with it. I tried to convince the members of Krypton's ruling body, the Science Council, of this impending disaster, and urged re-establishing Krypton's space program so giant spacecrafts could be built to carry the populace to another habitable world. However, the Council was dismissive of my findings, and refused to comply with my plan. Now frustrated, I continued my work on space travel on my own, hoping to build a spacecraft to save my own family; this included launching several smaller test rockets (one of which included the family dog, Krypto). However, as time ran short, I soon found that I would only have enough time to build a spacecraft to save my only son Kal-El. I decided to aim for sending Kal-El to Earth, realizing he would gain superpowers under Earth's yellow sun and lower gravity. As Krypton finally went through its final destructive stages, Me and Lara placed our son in a rocket, and launched him toward Earth, before perishing along with almost all the rest of the planet's population.