Samuel Cate Prescott
| Samuel Cate Prescott | |
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| Born |
April 5, 1872 South Hampton, New Hampshire, United States of America |
| Died | March 19, 1962 (aged 89) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America |
| Residence |
 United States
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| Citizenship |
United States
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| Fields | Food science, microbiology |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | William Thompson Sedgwick (see footnote) |
| Doctoral students | Philip K. Bates, Samuel A. Goldblith, Bernard E. Proctor |
| Known for | Time-temperature studies in canning, food microbiology, first president of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) (1939-41) |
| Notable awards | IFT Nicholas Appert Award - 1943 IFT Stephen M. Babcock Award - 1950 Honorary member of Phi Tau Sigma - 1953 |
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Prescott earned his S.B. in chemistry at MIT in 1894 and did not go up any further in his studies.
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Samuel Cate Prescott (April 5, 1872 – March 19, 1962) was an American food scientist and microbiologist who was involved in the development of food safety, food science, public health, and industrial microbiology.
Prescott was born in South Hampton, New Hampshire, the younger of two children. An older sister, Grace, later became a teacher in South Hampton, located near the Amesbury, Massachusetts area, located across the New Hampshire-Massachusetts state line. His formal education was in an ungraded schoolhouse in New Hampshire. During his fifteenth year, Prescott served as a "rod man" on a surveying crew to lay out the state line between eastern New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
In 1888, he enrolled at the Sanborn Seminary in Kingston, New Hampshire, becoming a member of the first graduating class in 1890 which consisted of three girls and two boys. The seminary was a preparatory school for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, then known as Boston Tech). It was there he met Allyne L. Merrill, an 1885 MIT graduate who helped Prescott enroll there in the fall of 1890.
Majoring in chemistry at MIT, Prescott had courses that had instructors such as James Mason Crafts in organic chemistry, Ellen Swallow Richards in sanitary chemistry, and William Thompson Sedgwick in bacteriology. Sedgwick would later become the first president of the Society of American Bacteriologists (SAB) in 1899-1901 (The SAB became the American Society for Microbiology in December 1960.).
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