# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolas-appert
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:39:39.386Z

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description: "He figured out how to trap summer in a jar — and in doing so, fed armies, crossed oceans, and turned spoilage from fate into problem. The \"father of food science\" made airtight preservation work before anyone understood why."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Nicolas Appert was born on 17 November 1749, the son of a French confectioner, and spent his early years learning the craft of preserving sweetness in sugar. In the early 19th century, he turned that intuition toward a larger problem: keeping all food from rotting, not just fruit. He developed a method of sealing substances in airtight containers, a process that worked long before germ theory explained it. Appert described the invention simply as a way "of conserving all kinds of food substances in containers" — underselling what became the foundation of modern food storage. He died on 1 June 1841, having solved a problem as old as hunger itself.