1. James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor.
20 Facts About Robert Cade
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Robert Cade was born in San Antonio, Texas, on September 26,1927.
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Robert Cade took an early interest in athletics and ran the mile in four minutes, twenty seconds at Brackenridge High School, a very respectable time for a high school athlete in the early 1940s.
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Robert Cade graduated from Brackenridge High School in May 1945 and joined the US Navy.
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Robert Cade completed his service in September 1948 with the rank of pharmacist's mate third class.
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Robert Cade completed four years of undergraduate coursework in two calendar years, and graduated with his bachelor's degree in 1950.
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Robert Cade was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity while at the University of Texas.
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Robert Cade served fellowships at his alma mater, Southwestern Medical School, and Cornell University Medical College in New York City.
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In 1961, Robert Cade joined the faculty of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, as an assistant professor of internal medicine in its renal division.
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In 1965, Robert Cade was approached by Dewayne Douglas, an assistant coach for the Florida Gators football team, about the extreme dehydration faced by Gator football players practicing in the high temperatures and humidity of the Deep South in late summer and early fall.
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Robert Cade learned from anecdotal evidence that football players were losing water through perspiration and failing to replace fluid during practice and games.
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Coach Graves was convinced, and asked Robert Cade to produce enough of his potion for all Gator games.
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Robert Cade patented the formula and offered all the rights to the drink to the University of Florida in exchange for the university's backing of the production and marketing of the drink, but the university turned down his proposal.
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Robert Cade initially obtained bank financing and began to produce "Gatorade" through his own business, but later entered into a contract with Stokely-Van Camp, Inc to produce and sell the drink.
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Robert Cade was an active, lifelong member of the Lutheran church, and he was recognized by the church with its Wittenberg Award in 1991.
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Robert Cade gave generously to many Lutheran colleges and organizations.
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Robert Cade was a talented violinist who sometimes played with local symphony orchestras.
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Robert Cade acquired collections of more than thirty violins and more than sixty vintage Studebaker automobiles.
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On November 27,2007, Robert Cade died of kidney failure, at the age of 80, in Gainesville.
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Robert Cade was survived by his wife Mary, their six children, twenty grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.