Clarence Birdseye was born in 1886, in Brooklyn.
Birdseye attended Amherst College.
After being part of a fur-trading expedition he gained an insight in frozen food.
Birdseye started experimenting with the process of frozen food and eventually took out a number of patents.
Birdseye was one of the founders of the General Foods Company.
Birdseye is also credited with the infrared heat lamp.
Clarence Birdseye died in 1956.
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