Science Technology and Nation Building
Science Technology and Nation Building
Science Technology and Nation Building
NATION - BUILDING
• doctor • physician
• entomologist • psychiatrist
• botanist • food technologist
•zoologist • archaeologist
• geologist • ethnologist
• anthropologist • sanitary engineer
• ichthyologist • cartographer.
• conchologist
• pharmacologist
• marine technologist
• horticulture farmer
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES
The main managing agency responsible for science
and technology is the Department of Science and
Technology.
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Alfredo C. Santos
CHEMISTRY AND NATURAL PRODUCTS
• Father of Natural Products Research in the Philippines
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Gregorio Y. Zara
ENGINEERING
• Patented 30 devices and equipment including the two-way television telephone or videophone (1955) AKA “photo
phone signal separator network”
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Eduardo A.Quisumbing
BOTANY
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Fe Del Mundo
PEDIATRICS
• the first woman admitted at Harvard Medical School and founder of the first pediatric hospital in
the Philippines
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Dlosdado Banatao
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Oscar Ibarra
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• A leading researcher on design and
analysis of algorithms. He pioneered
a very powerful method called the
padding" of "translational" technique,
which is now widely utilized in
complexity theory.
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Notable Personalities in Philippine S&T
Lourdes J. Cruz
BIOCHEMISTRY
• Isolation and characterization of
peptides from Conus venoms
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HISTORY
1. Pre-Spanish Era
2. Spanish Colonial Era
3. American period
4. Post Commonwealth-
Era
PRE-SPANISH ERA
Filipinos were already aware of the medicinal and therapeutic
properties of plants and the methods of extracting medicine from
herbs.
Circa 1928
SPANISH COLONIAL ERA
The Spanish also contributed to the field of engineering in the islands
by constructing government buildings, churches, roads, bridges and
forts.
botanists:
Fr. Ignacio Mercado, Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera & Dr. Leon Ma
Guerrero
chemist
Anaclento del Rosario
medicine scholars
Dr. Manuel Guerrero, Dr. Jose Montes, Dr. Elrodario Mercado
SPANISH COLONIAL ERA
The Galleon Trade have accounted in the
Philippine colonial economy.