Background
Prescott, Samuel Cate was born on April 5, 1872 in South Hampton, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Samuel M. and Mary E. (Cate) Prescott.
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Samuel Cate Prescott
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Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1894. Postgraduate study Europe. Doctor of Science (honorary), Bates College, 1923, Lehigh University, 1947.
Career
With Massachusetts Institute Technology, since 1895, successively assistant in biology, instructor, assistant professor industrial biology and bacteriology, associate professor, professor industrial microbiology, 1914-1942, head department biology public health, 1922-1942, dean school science, 1932-1942, professor emeritus, since 1942, honorary lecturer, 1942-1943. Instructor bacteriology Simmons College, 1902-1909. Director Boston Biology-Chemical Laboratory, 1904-1921, research laboratory United Fruit Company, Portuguese Limon, Costa Rica, 1914-1917.
Chief division dehydration Bureau Chemistry, Washington, 1918-1919.
Chairman of the Board Refrigeration Research Foundation, since 1943. President Benjamin Chase Company, DerryVille, New Hampshire (U.S.)
Achievements
Membership
Served as major Sanitary corpus, United States army, 1919, lieutenant colonel to colonel O.R.C., 1920-1925, retired 1936. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Chemical Society, Society American Bacteriologists (president 1919), American Public Health Association, Massachusetts Institute Technology Alumni Association (president 1927-1928), Institute Food Technologists (president 1939-1941).
Clubs: Harvard Travellers, Brookline Thursday.
Joint author: Science and Experiment in Canning Industry, 1903.
Connections
Married Alice Durgin Chase, June 30, 1910. Children: Robert Sedgwick, Samuel Chase, Eleanor.
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American