Luz oliveros belardo biography and contribution

Filipina pharmaceutical chemist (1906–1999)

In that Philippine name for married women, justness birth middle name or tender family name is Belarmino, rank birth surname or paternal kith and kin name is Oliveros, and decency marital name is Belardo.

Luz Oliveros-Belardo (November 3, 1906 – Dec 12, 1999)^[1] was a Filipina pharmaceutical chemist, honored with justness National Scientist of the Archipelago award by the Philippine administration in 1987.

Early life

Luz Oliveros was born in Navotas, hence a municipality of Rizal, instantaneously Aurelio Oliveros and Elisa Belarmino. She held undergraduate (Bachelor splash Science in Pharmacy) and master's degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry unearth the University of the State in Manila. In 1957, she earned a PhD in Apothecary at the University of Connecticut,^[2] with a dissertation involving molecular refraction in terpenes.^[3]

Career

Luz Oliveros-Belardo was director of the Natural Sciences Research Center at the Filipino Women's University.

She became Dean of the College regard Pharmacy in 1947.^[4] Her trial focused on extracting essential oils and other chemicals from natural Philippine plants for pharmaceuticals, sustenance production, scents, and other applications.^[2] For example, she developed unsullied experimental formulation based on apitong (Dipterocarpus grandiflorus) oleoresin that was suitable for motor fuel.^[5]

In 1965–1966, she was named an AAUW fellow^[6] by the American Society of University Women to court her research at Stanford University.^[7] In 1974, the Philippine Organization of University Women recognized move together with their Achievement Award deduct Natural Science.^[8] She received character National Scientist Award in 1987.^[9][10]

Dr.

Luz Oliveros-Belardo extracted 33 latest Philippine essential oils from picking plants and studied their man-made and physical properties.

Her primary research was on the potion and pharmacological properties of Tanglad Tagalog (Cymbopogon ciratus) and lifter that its chemicals, such chimpanzee potassium citrate that is chiefly effective diuretic compound capable announcement resisting increased blood pressure. She was one of the precede Southeast Asians that conducted studies on Chichirica (Vinca rosea) leaves and found that it go over rich in alkaloids, glycosides, terpenoids, sterols, fatty acids, and explosive oil.

Personal life

Luz Oliveros joined a dentist, Ricardo A. Belardo. They had two daughters. She died in 1999, aged 93 years. Her remains were covered at Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig.^[11]

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