Fredric John Baur (July 14, 1918 – May 4, 2008) was an American organic chemist and food storage scientist notable for designing the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked potato chip in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1971. His other accomplishments included development of fryingoils and freeze-dried ice cream.[1] Baur was a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and received both his master's and PhD degrees at Ohio State University. He also served in the U.S. Navy as an aviation physiologist. He was a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Baur died on May, 4, 2008 at the age of 89 due to Alzheimer's disease.[2] Some of Baur's ashes were buried in a Pringles can at his request.[3][4][5] Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in an Original flavor Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to one of Baur's grandchildren.
Baur, F. J., ed. (1984). Insect Management for Food and Storage and Processing. St. Paul, MN: American Association of Cereal Chemists. ISBN0913250384.
US patent US3498798A, Fredric J Baur, Harold Kenneth Hawley & Harold Kenneth Hawley, "Packaging of chip-type snack food products", published 1970-03-03, issued 1970-03-03, assigned to Procter and Gamble Co
