Peter Noznick,. A food chemist born in New York City

New York City

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, he moved to Windham Center, Connecticut., in 1930 and graduated from Windham High School

Windham High School

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 in 1934.

He received a bachelor of science degree, with distinction, in chemistry from the University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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 at Storrs in 1938 and a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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 in Minneapolis in 1946.

At the university, Mr. Noznick—who held Hormel

Hormel

Hormel Foods Corporation is a food company based in southeastern Minnesota , perhaps best known as the producer of Spam luncheon meat. The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, U.S., by George A. Hormel in 1891. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods...

 and Quartermaster fellowships—began his career of developing technologies that made the modern food industry possible.

In 1946, he began a long career with Beatrice Foods

Beatrice Foods

Beatrice Foods Company was a major American food processing company. In 1987, its smaller international food operations were sold to Reginald Lewis, a corporate attorney creating TLC Beatrice International, after which the majority of its domestic brands and assets were acquired by Kohlberg,...

 Co., starting as a project leader, becoming the director of research in 1956 and retiring as director of science and corporate technology in 1981.

He held more than 60 U.S. and foreign patents, including those for powdered cheese, powdered whipped toppings, encapsulated and spray-dried flavors, spray-dried shortening and milk products that could be used in tropical climates. Those concepts are embodied in Cool Whip

Cool Whip

Cool Whip is a brand of imitation whipped cream named a whipped topping by its manufacturer. It is used in North America as a dessert topping and in some no-bake pie recipes. It was generally described as "non-dairy" as it contained no cream or milk and no lactose; however, it did contain the milk...

, Velveeta

Velveeta

Velveeta is the brand name of a processed cheese product having a taste that is identified as a type of American cheese with a texture that is softer and smoother. It was first made in 1918 by Swiss immigrant Emil Frey of the Monroe Cheese Company in Monroe, New York. In 1923, The Velveeta Cheese...

 powdered cheese and other similar products.

Peter Noznick died from complications arising from Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

 on November 26, 2005 at the age of 90 in Evanston, Illinois

Evanston, Illinois

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