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The Department of Science and Technology is the key government institution for science and technology, with policy development being co-ordinated by a series of sectorial councils. Within the framework of the current National Science and Technology Plan, 2002–2020 (NSTP), the strategic focus is on building technological self-reliance.
Angel Chua Alcala ONS (March 1, 1929 – February 1, 2023) was a Filipino biologist who was named a National Scientist of the Philippines in 2014. Alcala is known for his fieldwork to build sanctuaries and to promote biodiversity in the aquatic ecosystems of the Philippines. He was the Chairman of the Board of Advisers at the Angelo King Center ...
Gregorio Ynciong Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) [ 1] was a Filipino engineer, physicist, a National Scientist, and inventor. He was known as the father of videoconferencing [ 2] for having invented the first two-way videophone. [ 2][ 3][ 1] He was also one of the country's pioneer aeronautical engineer having invented an airplane ...
National Scientist of the Philippines. Edgardo Dizon Gomez, ONS (November 7, 1938 – December 1, 2019) [ 1] was a Filipino biologist who was conferred the rank of National Scientist of the Philippines in 2014. [ 2][ 3] He was a professor emeritus for marine biology at the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute .
Awards. National Scientist of the Philippines. Lourdes J. Cruz (born May 19, 1942) is a Filipino biochemist whose research has contributed to the understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the venom of fish-hunting Conus marine snails. [ 1] Throughout the Philippines, she is known as the Sea Snail Venom Specialist.[ 2]
National Scientist of the Philippines. Ramon Cabanos Barba ONS (August 31, 1939 – October 10, 2021) was a Filipino inventor and horticulturist [ 1][ 2] best known for inventing a way to induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel and potassium nitrate. [ 3] Barba was proclaimed a National Scientist of the Philippines in June 2014. [ 4][ 5]
Pharmaceutical chemist. Spouse. Ricardo Belardo. Children. 2. Awards. National Scientist of the Philippines. Luz Oliveros-Belardo (November 3, 1906 – December 12, 1999) [ 1] was a Filipina pharmaceutical chemist, honored with the National Scientist of the Philippines award by the Philippine government in 1987.
The crude death rate is defined as "the mortality rate from all causes of death for a population," calculated as the "total number of deaths during a given time interval" divided by the "mid-interval population", per 1,000 or 100,000; for instance, the population of the U.S. was around 290,810,000 in 2003, and in that year, approximately 2,419,900 deaths occurred in total, giving a crude death ...