Filipino Scientists - Filipino Botanists, Filipino Physicists, Fe del Mundo, Antonio Luna, Paulo Campos, Caesar Saloma, Alexis Belonio, Leon (Paperback)

Chapters: Filipino Botanists, Filipino Physicists, Filipino Physiologists, Antonio Luna, Fe Del Mundo, Paulo Campos, Caesar Saloma, Alexis Belonio, Leon Maria Guerrero, Jose R. Velasco, National Scientist of the Philippines, Czarina Saloma, Arturo Alcaraz, Eduardo Quisumbing, Raymundo Punongbayan, Baldomero Olivera, Francisco Quisumbing, Mariano Yogore, Dioscoro L. Umali. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eduardo Quisumbing y Arguelles (1895, Santa Cruz, Laguna 1986) was a leading authority of plants in the Philippines .Education He earned his BSA at University of the Philippines Los Banos in 1918, his MS at the University of the Philippines Los Banos in 1921, and Ph. D. in Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology at the University of Chicago in 1923.Career From 1920-26 he was attached to the College of Agriculture in U.P., and from 1926-28 to the University of California; in 1928 appointed Systematic Botanist and since February 1934 Acting Chief of the Natural Museum Division of the Bureau of Science, Manila, now Director of the National Museum. When assigned to the U.S. Navy in Guiuan, at the southern tip of Samar, made collections in that region. He retired as Director in November 1961, and was for some following years attached to the Araneta University . Dr. Quisumbing undertook restoration of the Herbarium which was completely destroyed during the war.Dr. Quisumbing was author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids, including Medicinal plants in the Philippines (Manila 1951). Saccolabium quisumbingii has been named in his honour. He was recipient of the Distinguished Service Star (1954) for outstanding contribution to the field of systematic botany; Diploma of Merit on Orchidology and Fellow Gold Medal, Malaysian Orchid Society (1966); G...