Guy Livingston


Gideon E. "Guy" Livingston was an American food scientist who was responsible for founding Phi Tau Sigma at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was also well known in food safety for foodservice establishments and for refrigerated foods shelf-life studies.

College career

A native of New York, Livingson earned his B.A. in chemistry from New York University, then earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in food technology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under Carl R. Fellers. He stayed at UMass as an instructor from 1953 to 1956, where he was the faculty advisor for the first Phi Tau Sigma chapter in the United States. Phi Tau Sigma is the honorary society of food science and technology that has 39 chapters on university campuses in the United States and Latin America as of 2007.

Consulting career

Livingston left UMass in 1956 to found his consulting firm, Food Science Associates, in Dobbs Ferry, New York. During his consulting career, Livingston wrote about 100 research and technical articles, earned two American patents, and edited or co-authored four books.
Livingston died on New Year's Day, 2000 in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Contributions to food science