# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-baur
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:06:04.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-baur"
name: "Fred Baur"
slug: "fred-baur"
description: "Fredric John Baur Jr. 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 frying oils and freeze-dried ice cream. 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."
tagline: "Creator of Pringles can (1918–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Baur.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-06-14"
deathDate: "2008-05-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.88
  momentum:             0.9446935724962631
  historical:           7.998462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Бор, Фред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "فرد باور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "فرد باور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur"
    title: "Fred Baur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur"
    title: "Fred Baur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Baur"
    title: "Fredric Baur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%A4_%D4%B2%D5%B8%D6%80"
    title: "Ֆրեդ Բոր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Baur"
    title: "Fredric Baur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur"
    title: "Fred Baur"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166895"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump