Fellers, Carl Raymond (1893-1960)

US bacteriologist. He researched the safety of canned foods for the National Canners Association and helped found the Institute of Food Technology (1939). He invented methods for pasteurizing dried foods and canning Atlantic crab.

He was born in Hastings, New York. Before founding the Institute of Food Technology, he worked at Massachusetts State College (now the University of Massachusetts) and the Agricultural Experiment Station in Amherst. In 1953, he led efforts to establish a fisheries school and laboratory at the University of Massachusetts.