Nissin has reported that Momofuku Ando has died in Japan at the age of 93.

The ubiquitous ramen a lot of us lived on in college (also sometimes called
gakusei ryori or "student cuisine" in Japan) was invented in 1958 by Nissin
Foods founder Momofuku Ando. Momofuku was in his late 40s when he had the
brainstorm of feeding the post-war masses with instant noodles.

In spite of all the bad jokes and comments about instant ramen and the
poverty-stricken students (me among them) who used it as a way to eke out
spending money and supplement dorm meals, it was and is one of the great
inventions of the last 50 years.

Ed