Dolores ramirez filipino scientist biography

Filipino geneticist (born 1931)

Dolores A. Ramirez (born September 20, 1931) is a Filipino geneticist. She specializes in plant breeding and plant cytogenetics.

She was named a National Scientist of the Philippines in 1998.

Dolores ramirez filipino scientist biography

Early life and education

Dolores A. Ramirez was born on September 20, 1931, in Calamba, Laguna to Leonor Altoveros and Augusto U. Ramirez. She was the oldest of eight children and her father died when she was young.

She graduated from Laguna Institute in 1952 with a First Honorable Mention award.^[1]

She attended the University of the Philippines Los Baños, earning a bachelor of science in agriculture, magna cum laude, in 1956.

Her thesis, under Dioscoro L. Umali, concerned the nature of lodging in rice.

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She received a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship and attended the University of Minnesota in the United States. She studied under cytogeneticist Charles Burnham and earned her MSc in cytogenetics in 1958. She continued on t