Lesson 3

• Science in the service of humanity is technology, but lack of wisdom may make the service harmful.
• Fe Villanueva del Mundo was a Filipino Pediatrician, the founder of the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines, and is noted for her pioneering work on the infectious diseases in Philippine communities.
• In the 1950s, Fe Villanueva del Mundo pursued studies on dengue fever.
• Fe Villanueva del Mundo's textbook of Pediatrics is widely used in the Philippines.
• In 1980, Fe Villanueva del Mundo was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines, and in 2010, she was conferred the Order of Lakandula.
• Eduardo A. Quisumbing was a Filipino Biologist, author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids, including 'Medicinal Plants of the Philippines'.
• Saccolabium quisumbingii, an orchid species, has been named in honor of Eduardo A. Quisumbing.
• Gavino C. Trono Jr is known as the "Father of Kappaphycus farming" and his research focuses on seaweeds including studies on the culture of Eucheuma denticulatum, Kappaphycus alvarezii, Gracilaria spp., Caulerpa lentilifera, and Halymenia durvillei for coastal communities.
• Gavino C. Trono Jr wrote an academic paper reporting the occurrence of ice-ice disease that had affected seaweed farms.
• María Orosa y Ylagan was a Filipino technologist, pharmaceutical chemist, humanitarian and war heroine who experimented with foods native to the Philippines and formulated food products like calamansi nip, a desiccated and powdered form of calamansi that could be used to make calamansi juice, banana ketchup, Soyalac (a protein-rich powdered soybean product) and Darak (a rice bran powder rich in thiamine and other vitamins which could also treat beriberi).
• With her knowledge of local food properties, Orosa also made contributions in the culinary realm and taught proper preservation methods for native dishes such as adobo, dinuguan, kilawin and escabeche.
• Angel C. Alcala is National Scientist of the Philippines (2014), his work has led to the discovery of 50 new species of reptiles and amphibians, and he has also worked to protect the lives of giant clams in the Philippines.
• Ramon Cabanos Barba was a Filipino inventor and horticulturist best known for inventing a way to induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel (ethephon) and potassium nitrate.
• Maria Theresa “Tetchi” Cruz Capellan is the founder and Chairperson of Philippine Solar and Storage Energy Alliance, CEO and President of SunAsia Energy Inc and a former Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture.
• Compared with the kerosene lamp, the SALt lamp is a lot safer since it does not have components or compounds that may spark fire.
• Edgardo Dizon Gomez led the world’s first national-scale assessment of damage to coral reefs leading to international conservation initiatives such as the replanting of corals.
• Alfredo Mahar Francisco Amante Lagmay is executive director of Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) and a professor at the National Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of the Philippines Diliman.
• Edgardo Dizon Gomez pioneered giant clam (Tridacna gigas) breeding stationed in Bolinao and other protected areas.
• Alfredo Mahar Francisco Amante Lagmay is a Filipino geologist and National Scientist of the Philippines (2014).
• Aisa Mijeno is a Filipina inventor and entrepreneur who co-founded the Sustainable Alternative Lighting (SALt), a social movement that aims to provide alternative lighting solutions.
• Alfredo Mahar Francisco Amante Lagmay was awarded the Plinius Medal by the European Geosciences Union on April 15, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, for his “outstanding interdisciplinary natural-hazard research and natural-disaster engagement in the Philippines, particularly with respect to volcanic hazards, earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and floods.” He is the first Asian to receive the award.
• Aisa Mijeno invented a lamp that uses salt and water to chemically create light.
• Edgardo Dizon Gomez is a Filipino biologist and National Scientist of the Philippines (2014).
• In 2007, Edgardo Dizon Gomez pioneered the study on ocean acidification caused by increased levels of absorbed carbon dioxide in the ocean.