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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. -
Charles/Clarence Birdseye
Process of quick freezing. -
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. -
Antoine Lavoiser
Quantitative chemical experiments- system to describe structure of chemical. -
James L. Kraft
Began wholesale cheese business- which led to processed cheese. -
Stephen Poplawski
Invented the blender. -
Edwin Perkins
Nebraska chemist invented kool-aid. -
Edward Haas lll
Pez Candies in Vienna, Austria. -
Walter Diemer
Invented double bubble gum. -
Forrest Mars
Started candy company; developed Mars Bars and created M&M's. -
George A. Hormel
Founded Hormel and invented SPAM. -
Dr. Peter Schlumbohm
Invented coffeemaker. -
Ellen Richards
Founder of home economics- 1st woman to be admitted to MIT; worked on air, water/food quality. -
Percy Le Baron
An engineer who invented the microwave oven. -
Carl Tupper
Tupper seal and tupperware. -
AC Swanson
Frozen Food- Introduced TV dinner. -
Ermal Fraze
created self opening can by putting first pull tabs on cans. -
J. Robert Cade
Professor of medicine and physiology and invented Gatorade. -
William Mitchell
Research chemist who invented pop rocks and cool whip.
