MAJOR PERSONALITIES IN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IN THE PHILIPPINES
FE VILLANUEVA DEL MUNDO
• Filipino Pediatrician
• Founder of the first pediatric hospital in the
Philippines
• Noted for her pioneering work on the infectious
diseases in Philippine communities
• In 1950s, she pursued studies on dengue fever,
• Textbook of Pediatrics
EDUARDO QUISUMBING

• Filipino Biologist
• Author of Taxonomic and morphological
papers, many of which deal with orchids,
including ‘Medicinal Plants in the
Philippines’
Saccolabium quisumbingii
GAVINO DURANT TRONO JR., PhD
• “Father of Kappaphycus Farming”
• His research focuses on seaweeds
Eucheuma denticulatum
• Kappaphycus alvarezii
• Gracilaria spp.
• Caulerpa lentilifera
• Halymenia durvillei for coastal
communities
• He wrote an academic paper reporting the
occurrence of ice-ice disease that had
affected seaweed farms
MARIA OROSA
• a Filipino technologist, pharmaceutical
chemist, humanitarian and war heroine
• she experimented with foods native to the
Philippines and formulated food products like
calamansi mip, a dessicated and powdered
form of calamansi that could be used to make
calamansi juice, banana ketchup, and a
powdered preparation of soybeans called
Soyalac, a “magic food”
• 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 ALCALA
• National Scientist of the Philippines (2014)
• First Filipino scientist to engage in
comprehensive studies concerning Philippine
reptiles and amphibians
• “Observations on the Amphibians of the Mount
Halcon and Mount Canlaon Areas,”
RAMON CABANOS BARBA
• National Scientist of the Philippines (2014)
• Invented a way to induce flowering in mango
trees regardless of season, boosting the local
mango industry.
• Helped farmers produce mangoes to sustain
the needs of people even if not in its season
TETCHI-CRUZ TAPELAN
• CEO of Philippine renewable energy provider
SunAsia Energy Inc. and founder of the
Philippine Solar Power Alliance (PSPA).
• Uses solar and hydro-powered electricity
which is used by many people today.
• Responsible for providing energy to the
remote and poverty-stricken villages on the
island of Mindanao in the southern
Philippines.
EDGARDO GOMEZ
• National Scientist of the Philippines (2014)
• He led the world’s first national-scale
assessment of damage to coral reefs
• Pioneered giant clam (Tridacna gigas)
breeding
• In 2007, he pioneered the study on ocean
acidification caused by increased levels of
absorbed carbon dioxide in the ocean.
ALFREDO MAHAR LAGMAY
• Received 2015 Plinius Medal from the
European Geosciences Union for his
research into natural hazards and disasters
in the Philippines, in particular volcanic
hazards, earthquakes, typhoons, landslides
and floods.
• Executive director of the Department of
Science and Technology Nationwide
Operational Assessment of Hazards (NOAH)
10. AISA MIJENO
• Sustainable Alternative Lighting (SALt), a
social enterprise that is developing an LED
lamp that runs on just table salt and
water.
• Compared with kerosene lamp, the SALt
lamp is also a lot safer, Mijeno stressed
since it does not have components and
compounds that may spark fire.
Moreover, it does not emit toxic gases
and leaves minimal carbon footprint.