Food Science Pioneers

  • 1626- Sir Francis Bacon

    Experimented the effects of decay of cold meat
  • 1803- Thomas Moore

    First electric refrigerator
  • 1853- George Crum

    Native american/ African american chef that invented potato chips
  • 1869- Thomas Adams

    1869- Thomas Adams
    opened first chewing gum factory
  • 1884- John Harvey Kellogg

    first maker of corn flake cereal
  • 1886- John s. Pemberton

    1886- John s. Pemberton
    Atlanta pharmacist that created Coca Cola
  • 1895- Peter Cooper

    Patent for manufactured gelatin desert (later called gel-o)
  • 1905- Milton Hershey

    Made Milk chocolate and sold world wide
  • 1906- Dr. Harvey Wiley

    Chief chemist at USDA- Pure food and drug act
  • 1915- James L. Kraft

    began wholesale cheese factory- later made processed cheese
  • 1922- Stephen Poplawski

    invented the blender
  • 1927- Edward Haas III

    Pez candies created Vienna, Austria
  • 1927- Edwin Perkins

    Nebraska Chemist invented Kool Aid
  • 1928- Walter Diemer

    1928- Walter Diemer
    invented double bubble gum
  • 1937- George A. Hormel

    invented Hormel and SPAM
  • 1941- Dr. Peter Schlumbohm

    invented coffeemaker
  • 1946- Percy Le Baron Spencer

    Microwave oven
  • late 1940's- Carl Tupper

    Tupper seal and tupperwear
  • 1952- AC Swanson

    1952- AC Swanson
    frozen food-Tv dinner
  • 1959- Ermal Fraze

    self opening cans by putting tabs on them
  • 1965- J. Robert Cade

    Professor that invented Gatorade
  • Charles/ Clarence Birds Eye

    process of quick freezing
  • N/A Antoine Lavoisier

    Chemical experiment system to describe structure of chemicals
  • N/A Forest Mars

    N/A Forest Mars
    Candy company Mars bars
  • N/a William Mitchell

    Research chemist that invented cool whip and pop rocks
  • N/A Ellen Richards

    Founder of home economics. First women in MIT. Worked on food, water, and air quality