fruits and berries, blue point oysters, and fish fillets. Consumers liked the new products, and today this is considered the birth of retail frozen foods. The "Birds Eye" name remains a leading frozen-food brand. In 1949, Birdseye won the Institute of Food Technologists' Babcock-Hart Award. Birdseye was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005. Death Birdseye died on October 7, 1956, of a heart attack at the Gramercy Park Hotel at the age of 69. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the sea off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Legacy In 2012 a book-length biography of Birdseye, Mark Kurlansky's Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man, was published by Doubleday. Birdseye inventions related to food products References Further reading "Clarence Birdseye" – Food Engineering. September 2003. p. 66. About.com biography History of Rocky Mountain Labs, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Birdseye, Clarence & Eleanor G. (1951). Growing Woodland Plants. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. External links Clarence Birdseye Journals, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Clarence Birdseye biography at Birds Eye Foods web site List of IFT Award winners 1886 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American inventors American food engineers American food company founders American food scientists Amherst College alumni Businesspeople from New York City Food preservation Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning Montclair High School (New Jersey) alumni People from Montclair, New Jersey Scientists from New York (state) 20th-century American businesspeople Post Holdings General Foods