Answer the following question: Facts: - doctoral students: philip e. proctor k. bates , samuel a. goldblith , bernard - prizes: ift babcock award - 1950 honorary member of phi tau sigma nicholas - 1953 appert award - 1943 ift stephen m. - known for: time-temperature president of the institute of food technologists -lrb- ift -rrb- studies -lrb- 1939-41 -rrb- in canning , food microbiology , first - death date: 19 march 1962 - field: food science , microbiology - doctoral advisor: william thompson sedgwick -lrb- see footnote -rrb- - work institution: massachusetts institute of technology - birth date: 5 april 1872 - name: samuel cate prescott - footnotes: prescott 1894 and did not go up any further in his earned studies . his s.b. in chemistry at mit in - death place: cambridge , massachusetts , united states of america - birth place: south america hampton , new hampshire , united states of - alma mater: massachusetts institute of technology Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of samuel cate prescott .
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samuel cate prescott -lrb- april 5 , 1872 -- march 19 , 1962 -rrb- was an american food scientist and microbiologist who was involved in the development of food safety , food science , public health , and industrial microbiology .