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Filipino scientist

Casimiro Villacin del Rosario (June 13, 1896 – September 15, 1982) was a Filipinoscientist. He was named a national scientist in the Philippines in 1983 for being a pioneer in physics, meteorology, and astronomy in the Philippines.

Del Rosario is recognized for his restoration of the war-damaged Philippine Observatory and for his leadership in establishing various observatories to study the changing times and galaxies. He was an officer of the World Meteorological Organization^[1][2] and led the establishment of the Philippine Science High School.

Biography

On June 13, 1896, Del Rosario was born in Bantayan in the Philippine province of Cebu.

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His parents were Pantaleon del Rosario, a farmer, and Benita Villacin. Being four years old when he was in first grade, he went the University of the Philippines after graduating from the Cebu High School. He was nineteen when he completed his first undergraduate degree, a Ba