Filipino Scientists

RAYMUNDO

PUNONGBAYAN

Raymundo Punongbayan

 Profession/s: Volcanologist, Seismologist, Former director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology

and Seismology (1937-2005)
 Specialization: Structural Geology and Tectonics, Environmental Geology, Photogeology and Remote
Sensing, Volcanology, and Geologic Hazards Mapping and Risk Assessment.
 Most Significant Contribution: He was praised for his role in explaining in plain language the Mt.
Pinatubo eruption’s implications in 1991. He, his staff, and American colleagues correctly forecasted
the massive eruption, balancing the need not to panic people with premature and unnecessary
evacuations with the need to remove people from the danger zone before the volcano exploded. Dr.
Punongbayan’s skills in working with civil defence leaders, public works engineers, legislators, and the
news media saved an estimated 10,000 lives.
 BENITO LUMEN

Benito Lumen

 Profession/s: Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology

 Specialization: Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Engineering, Molecular Biology.

 Most Significant Contribution: Contributions to natural products biochemistry, with special

regard to the recovery of lunasin, a cancer preventative from seeds of common crop plants.
 PROCESO ALCALA

PROCESO ALCALA

 Profession/s: Environmentalist, Politician, Civil Engineer

 Specialization: Organic Agriculture, Agribusiness, Biotechnology
 Most Significant Contribution: He is one of the principal authors of the Organic Agriculture
Act of 2010 (RA 10068) and Mounts Banahaw-San Cristobal Protected Landscape Act (RA
2718). He was also a co-author of the Climate Change Act (RA 9729) and the Expanded
Senior Citizens Act (RA 9994). He is an environmentalist and a non-government organization
worker. Alcala pursued relentlessly his advocacy for and dedication to agricultural
development, particularly organic agriculture in the Congress….