H. David Dalquist

{{Short description|American inventor and chemical engineer}}

{{Infobox person

|name=H. David Dalquist

|birth_date=May 25, 1918

|birth_place= Minneapolis, Minnesota

|death_date={{death date and age|2005|1|2|1918|5|25}}

|death_place=Edina, Minnesota

|occupation=Inventor, chemical engineer

|spouse=Dorothy Margerite Staugaard Dalquist

|children=David Dalquist
Corrine Lynch
Linda Jeffrey
Susan Brust

}}

H. David Dalquist (May 25, 1918 – January 2, 2005) was an American inventor and chemical engineer.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/obituaries/h-david-dalquist-86-bundt-pans-inventor-dies.html?_r=0|title=H. David Dalquist, 86, Bundt Pan's Inventor, Dies|author=The Associated Press|date=January 6, 2005}}

Dalquist was a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Dalquist served as a radar technician in the Pacific with the United States Navy during World War II. In 1948, Dalquist and his wife, Dorothy, purchased Northland Aluminum Products and began manufacturing bake ware under the Nordic Ware name. Initially Nordic Ware's product line were all designed to make Scandinavian specialty items including Rosette, Krumkake, Platte Panne and Ebelskiver.{{cite web

|url= http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0980.html

|title= Guide to the Nordic Ware Records

|publisher= National Museum of American History

|accessdate= April 15, 2016

|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150906004811/http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0980.html

|archive-date= September 6, 2015

|url-status= dead

}}

In the early 1950s, Dalquist designed the Bundt cake pan. Bundt cakes became very popular after the Tunnel of Fudge cake recipe took second place at the 1966 Pillsbury Bake-Off.{{Cite web|url=http://www.americantable.org/2016/01/recipe-tunnel-of-fudge-cake-1966/|title=The American Table: Tunnel of Fudge Cake (1966)|date=2016-01-01|website=The American Table|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-21|archive-date=2021-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306090403/http://www.americantable.org/2016/01/recipe-tunnel-of-fudge-cake-1966/|url-status=dead}} Dalquist subsequently licensed the name to Pillsbury for use in their cake mixes. He later helped develop thermoset plastics used in microwave cookware.{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51960-2005Jan5.html|title = Bundt Pan Creator H. David Dalquist|newspaper=Washington Post|date = 6 January 2005|accessdate = 19 December 2012}}{{cite web|url= http://tcbmag.com/Honors-and-Events/Minnesota-Family-Business-Awards/2014-Minnesota-Family-Business-Awards/Nordic-Ware|title= Nordic Ware|publisher= Twin Cities Business|author= Gene Rebeck|date= October 24, 2014|access-date= April 15, 2016|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160501164617/http://tcbmag.com/Honors-and-Events/Minnesota-Family-Business-Awards/2014-Minnesota-Family-Business-Awards/Nordic-Ware|archive-date= May 1, 2016}}