Personalities in STS

Cards (22)

  • 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.