The Samuel Cate Prescott Award has been awarded since 1964 by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in Chicago, Illinois. It is awarded to food science or technology researchers who are under 36 years of age or who earned their highest degree within ten years before July 1 of the year the award is presented. This award is named for Samuel Cate Prescott (1872-1962), a food science professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was also the first president of IFT.
Award winners receive a plaque from IFT and a USD 3,000 honorarium.
Winners
YearWinner 1964 Edgar Allan Day 1965 Ernest J. Briskey 1966 Award not given 1967 Robert G. Cassens 1968 Herbert O. Hultin 1969 Harry Y. Yamamoto 1970 Steven R. Tannenbaum 1971 Darrel E. Goll 1972 Theodore P. Labuza 1973 Norman F. Haard 1974 Thomas W. Keenan 1975 Anthony J. Sinskey 1976 Lowell D. Satterlee 1977 Larry R. Beuchat 1978 James M. Flink 1979 Award not given 1980 John W. Erdman, Jr. 1981 Paul A. Carroad 1982 R. Paul Singh 1983 Jesse F. Gregory III 1984 Henry K. Leung 1985 Barbara O. Schneeman 1986 Jozef L. Kokini 1987 Michael P. Doyle 1988 James J. Pestka 1989 Todd R. Klaenhammer 1990 Carl A. Batt 1991 Michael J. McCarthy 1992 Shelly J. Schmidt 1993 Award not given 1994 James L. Steele 1995 Marc C. Hendrickx 1996 Kathryn L. McCarthy 1997 Eric A. Decker 1998 Casimir C. Akoh 1999 D. Julian McClements 2000 Susan L. Hefle 2001 Q. Howard Zhang 2002 Kathryn Boor 2003 Martin Wiedmann 2004 Sheryl A. Barringer 2005 Maryanne Drake 2006 Dong-Hyun Kang 2007 Jochen Weiss 2008 F. Xavier Malcata 2009 Manuel Castillo 2010 Mario Ferruzzi
References
List of past winners - Official site