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Fe Villanueva del Mundo, OLD ONS GCGH, (born Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva; 27 November 1911 – 6 August 2011 [1]) was a Filipino pediatrician. She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines and is known for shaping the modern child healthcare system in the Philippines.
Fe del Mundo (1911–2011), Philippines – medical incubator made out of bamboo for use in rural communities without electrical power Colin Murdoch (1929–2008), New Zealand – Tranquillizer gun , disposable hypodermic syringe
Fe Del Mundo (1909–2011) Medical 1938 National Scientist of the Philippines; pediatrician; recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award; devised an incubator made out of bamboo, designed for use in rural communities without electrical power; the first woman admitted as a student at Harvard Medical School Russell Doolittle (1931–2019) PhD, 1962 Biochemist
Budin is known as the father of modern perinatology, and his seminal work The Nursling (Le Nourisson in French) became the first major publication to deal with the care of the neonate. [15] The incubator was improved in 1890 in Marseilles by Alexandre Lion, who founded in 1891 the Œuvre Maternelle des Couveuses d'Enfants in Nice and in January ...
This recognition of his works led to his appointment as the Secretary of Health by Philippine President Elpidio Quirino from 1950 to 1953. He was appointed Chairman of the National Science Development Board, now the Department of Science and Technology , from 1962 to 1965 by President Diosdado Macapagal , and reappointed under President ...
Joseph Bolivar DeLee (October 28, 1869 – April 2, 1942) [1] was an American physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics. [2] DeLee founded the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, where he introduced the first portable infant incubator.
Lagmay was born on August 14, 1919 in Manila. His father was an immigrant from Ilocos who works in a pre-war gas company, Sacony. As a child whose family is struggling with poverty, he had a hobby of reading books and diligent study despite discouragement from family members.
After some years working as an instructor at his alma mater, in 1937 he entered the Iowa State University in the United States as a UP pensionado. Banzon obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in biochemistry and a minor in Microbiology in 1940. [1] The topic of his doctoral dissertation was the “fermentative utilization of cassava.” [1] [2]