who invented chicken nuggets

Chicken nuggets were invented by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, in the early 1960s. He developed the original recipe for what were called "Chicken Crispies" or "chicken sticks" by coating ground chicken meat in a batter that could be fried and frozen, solving technical challenges of binding and breading chicken pieces. McDonald's popularized chicken nuggets later, selling their Chicken McNuggets starting in 1980, but they did not invent the product itself. The invention is credited to Baker who published the recipe publicly in 1963.