Robert C. Baker

Robert Carl Baker ( born December 29, 1921 in Newark, New York, † March 13, 2006 in Lansing, New York) was an American nutritionist and from 1957 to 1989 professor at Cornell University. He is considered the inventor of the chicken nuggets.

Robert Baker earned undergraduate degrees in 1943 at Cornell University in the Department of Fruit Tree customer. After that, he worked for four years in a branch of the Cornell University and acquired in 1949 from Pennsylvania State University with a master's degree in field marketing. It was followed by a PhD at Purdue University and in 1957 the appointment as a university professor at Cornell University, where he taught until his retirement in 1989. In 1970 he was founding director of the Cornell Institute of Food Science and Marketing.

Since the 1960s, Baker developed numerous new forms of preparation for poultry meat, including various types of sausage, turkey ham, chicken hot dogs, and which is known as chicken nuggets shaped meat. For the chicken nuggets Baker also invented a process for the industrial production of a well after the chilling still adhering breading as well as a Cornell chicken barbecue sauce seasoning sauce marketed.

Robert Baker died in 2006 of a heart attack.