[ EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 141, December 08, 1955 ]

CREATING A SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE



In order to coordinate the work and efforts of scientists and technologists in the Philippines to the end that our country and people may derive greater benefits from achievements in the field of science and technology, I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a Science Advisory Committee composed of the following:
Dr. M. V. Arguelles, Science Foundation of the Philippines Chairman and Science Liaison Officer
Dr. Juan Salcedo, Jr., Institute of Science and Technology Member
Dr. Vidal A. Tan, National Research Council Member
Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing, Philippine Association for the Advancement of Science Member
Dr. Ramon R. Angeles, Philippine Confederation of Professional Organizations Member

The Committee shall advise the President on the solution of problems requiring scientific and technical knowledge and on the implementation of the provisions of the Constitution relating to the promotion of scientific research and inventions and to the creation of scholarships in science for specially gifted citizens.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary