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Sir Francis Bacon
Experiment with effect of cold on decay of meat -
Thomas Moore
First electric refrigerator -
George Crum
Native American/African American chef invented potato chips -
Thomas Adams
Opened first chewing gum factory -
John Harvey Kellogg
Corn flakes cereal -
John S. Pemberton
Atlanta, GA pharmacist invented Coca-Cola -
Peter Cooper
Patent for manufacture of gelatin dessert (later purchased and called Jell-o) -
Milton Hershey
Made milk chocolate and sold nationwide at a low price -
Dr. Harvey Wiley
Chief chemist of USDA- Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 -
James L. Kraft
Began wholesale cheese business- which led to processed cheese -
Stephen Poplawski
Invented the blender -
Edward Haas III
Pez candies in Vienna, Austria -
Edward Perkins
Nebraska chemist invented Kool Aid -
Walter Diemer
Invented Double Bubble gum -
George A Hormel
Founded Hormel and invented SPAM -
Dr. Peter Schlumbohm
Invented the coffee maker -
Percy Le Baron Spencer
An engineer who invented the microwave oven -
Carl Tupper
Tupper seal and tupperware -
AC Swanson
Frozen foods - TV dinners -
Ermal Fraze
Created self-opening can by putting first pull tabs on cans -
J. Robert Cade
Professor of medicine and physiology- invented Gatorade -
Charles/Clarence Birdseye
Process of quick freezing -
Forrest Mars
Started candy company- developed Mars Bars and created M&M’s -
Antoine Lavoisier
Quantitative chemical experiments- system to describe structure of chemical -
Ellen Richards
Founder of home economics- first woman to be admitted to MIT; worked on air, water & food quality -
William Mitchell
A research chemist who invented Pop Rocks and also created Cool Whip
