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Luz Oliveros-Belardo was director of the Natural Sciences Research Center at the Philippine Women's University.She became Dean of the College of Pharmacy in 1947. [4] Her research focused on extracting essential oils and other chemicals from native Philippine plants for pharmaceuticals, food production, scents, and other applications. [2]
Also: Philippines: People: By occupation: Scientists: Women scientists This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Filipino scientists . It includes scientists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Development of the table of chemical elements The American chemist Glenn T. Seaborg —after whom the element seaborgium is named—standing in front of a periodic table, May 19, 1950 Part of a series on the Periodic table Periodic table forms 18-column 32-column Alternative and extended ...
She joined the Ateneo de Manila faculty in 1965, [3] eight years before the school began accepting women as students. [4] She chose academia over a competing job offer from industry because at the time it paid slightly better. [3] She acquired the nickname "Mustang Mary" at this time, because of the Ford Mustang that she drove. [5]
Phelps is associated on this honorary periodic table with the element einsteinium, having along with others, including Julie Ezold, researched purification of einsteinium-254, [27] and her fellow awardee, the post-doctoral researcher Nathan Brewer of Oak Ridge laboratory's Physics Division, is associated with the element tennessine. [6]
Eight women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (listed above), awarded annually since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the prize in 1911, which was her second Nobel Prize (she also won the prize in physics in 1903, along with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel – making her the only ...
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [ 1 ] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [ 1 ]
In October of 2021, the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines partnered with the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) to present two webinars featuring female NASA scientists, of which Santiago-Bond was one. [16] In the first webinar held on October 4, she described the experiences of women scientists, astronauts, and engineers in space. [16]