Personalities in STS

• Dioscoro L. Umali


  His research helped improved yields of corn, rice, and other economical plants, especially in upland areas.
• Anacleto Del Rosario


  His research contributed to the extraction of castor oil from palma christi. His formula for producing pure alcohol from nipa palm won him first prize at the 1881 World Fair in Paris
• Francisco Santos


  Studied food natives to the Philippines and recorded their chemical and nutritional value. His research helped to push solving problems in philippine diets.
• Mariano Yogre


  He was a full professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Chicago and published over 50 scientific works, he was awarded the Philippine Man of Science in 1964
• Gregorio Velasquez


  Devoted thirty years of his life to researching a type of blue green algae called myxophycea
• Dr. Raymundo Santiago Punongbayan


  Greatly advanced the understanding of volcanic eruption prediction and was the former director of the PHIVOLCS
• Baldomero Olivera


  Famous for his discovery of many cone snail toxins which hold great importance in the field of neuroscience.
• Conrado Singian Dayrit


  A former president of the Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies. He was known as Dr.Coconut due to his advocacy of the health benefits of coconut oil.
• Paulo C. Campos 


  Inaugural president of the National Academy of Science an and Technology and famed for his work in nuclear medicine
• Irene Crisologo


  is a radar meteorologist based in Potsdam, Germany working on open-source methods for processing weather radar data.
• Julius Sempio


  a scientist specializing in geoinformatics and remote sensing is helping develop an effective archive and database for images coming from Diwata-1, a Philippine microsatellite launched into orbit last year, and the future Diwata-2.
• Andreia Carillo


  is an astrophysicist from Bulacan, now based in Austin in the United States, where she is finishing a doctorate degree at the University of Texas. Her previously published paper characterized a dwarf galaxy 15 million light years away, including the kinds of stars it had and their implications on the environment.
• Sarah Oliva


  is a geophysicist based in Tulane University in New Orleans, United States. Hailing from Naga, Oliva had a background in physics and material science but returned to a childhood love, geology — one that was partially nurtured by having a geologist for a dad.
• Julian Banzon


  researched possible methods of alternative fuels. Conducted experiments with ethyl ester fuels derived from coconut and sugar cane.
• Carmen Velasquez


  specialized in fish parasitology, which the study of parasites amongst fish. Velasquez is known for discovering one genus of digenetic trematodes in local fish (a type of parasite) and for discovering thirty two new species of parasites from the Philippines
• Dolores Ramirez


  fought for the development of genetics in the Republic of the Philippines. She is a biochemical geneticist
• Jose Rodriguez


  dedicated his life to finding ways of controlling the leprosy disease. was given the honor of a Damien Dutton award in 1974
• Francisco Quisimbing 


  was a chemist, he invented the world famous Quink Ink that is used in pens all over the world
• Leon Maria Guerrero


  before a career in politics, was an influential botanist. He was respected so much so that a genus of plants, Guerreroia monocephala, and a species of orchids, Dendrobium guerreroi, are named in his honor. He was also the first licensed pharmacist in the Philippines.
• Fe Del Mundo


  is a pioneer in the field of pediatrics. She is the founder of the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and is believed to be the first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School
• Kamela Ng


  is a molecular epidemiologist who splits her time between the Institute of Tropical Medicine at Antwerp, Belgium, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her current research is focused on the early detection of drug resistant-tuberculosis transmission.
• Migs Canilao


  is an anthropologist and archaeologist specializing in environmental and urban geography. He is completing his studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago, where his research involves using high resolution satellite imagery to track ancient gold trading trails and settlements in Northwestern Luzon.