Purdue Professor Wins Nobel Prize
(DES MOINES, IA.) - A Purdue professor who invented a way to transport processed fruits and vegetables without having the food rot on the way has won the so-called Nobel Prize of Agriculture.
The 21-year-old World Food Prize has no direct connection to the Nobels, but was created by Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for developing a high-yield wheat.
Purdue Food Processing Professor Philip Nelson is being honored for creating the now widely-used aseptic storage system in the 1970s, using nitrogen to fill the vacant space in sterilized containers.
Today, more than 90-percent of the world's tomato harvest is shipped using Nelson's method, allowing tomato-based products to be manufactured year-round.
The award carries a quarter-million-dollar prize.
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