December 7, 2007
Inventor of Gatorade Dies at Age 80
J. Robert Cade, the University of Florida researcher who brought home a windfall to Gainesville by inventing the sports drink Gatorade, died last week at the age of 80.
The invention, originally created by Mr. Cade and other researchers to help the university's football team, the Gators, started the vast sports-drink industry and has been one of the most lucrative technology-transfer products in higher-education history. The university had collected $76-million from sales of the
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