Scientists and Inventors

Melecio S. Magno (World-Class Physicist

2008-05-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

Carmen L. Intengan(Nutritionist)

2008-04-05T00:14:00.000-07:00

Give man a fish and he will have a meal for a day; teach him how to catch fish and he will have a meal for a lifetime." Those were the words of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Dr. Carmen L. Intengan, nevertheless, pushed it a bit further. As a researcher and a science administrator, she has contributed to the advancement of nutrition in the country, having served as the director of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute from 1974-1980.

"Nutrition is definitely the key to a healthy individual. Healthy individuals make a healthy nation."

Awards for Dr. Intengan include: Presidential Award for outstanding contribution in basic nutrition research in the past decade (1957), FIDA Ten Outstanding Women Award (1967), Presidential award of merit for science (1968), and the NRCP Achievement award (1983)

Reuben V. Quiroga

2008-04-04T13:49:00.000-07:00

Reuben V. Quiroga finished his degree in B.S. Physics in San Carlos in Cebu. He subsequently pursued graduate studies at the University of the Philipines. Later, he studied advance Semiconductor Physics as British Council scholar at the Brunel University in London, England. He was also a Mombusho scholar at the Wasida University in Tokyo, Japan from 1986 to 1987. The following year he obtained his doctoral degree in Physics at the University of the Philippines. Then, he became the chairperson of the Physics department of the De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila City.

Significant researches of Mr. Quiroga involve conductive polymers, narrow-gap semiconductors and high-temperature superconductors. He was also a participant in the Australian International Development Program on 1990.

Mr. Quiroga, along with Mr. Gil Nonato Santos, is the popronent of "An Investigation of the Electrical and Transport Properties of Bulk Pb1-xSnxTe Crystals" a research project conducted at the school year 1990-1991