I watched six baseball games last weekend and all of the teams were drinking Gatorade, of course. Yesterday the university of Florida researcher who invented Gatorade, Robert Cade, died at the age of 80. Cade brought home a windfall to Gainesville by inventing the sports drink. The invention, originally designed 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 drink has earned the university more than $150-million in royalties since 1973.
Source: Associated Press
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