| LC control no. | no2009093773 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Orosa, Maria Y. |
| Variant(s) | Orosa, Maria, 1893-1945 Ylagan Orosa, Maria, 1893-1945 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000062943603 90556239 Q11209031 |
| Associated country | Philippines |
| Birth date | 1893-11-29 |
| Death date | 1945-02-13 |
| Place of birth | Taal (Batangas, Philippines) |
| Place of death | Manila (Philippines) |
| Field of activity | Food science Canning and preserving Food--Preservation Banana ketchup |
| Profession or occupation | Scientists Nationalists--Philippines Inventors |
| Found in | Preservation of Philippine foods, 1953: t.p. (Maria Y. Orosa) Maria Y Orosa, a role model for the youth. [no date]: page 5 (Maria Ylagan Orosa, was born on November 29, 1893 in Taal Batangas; the fourth of eight children of Simplico Agoncillo Orosa and Juliana de Castro Ylagan) page 27 (died on 13th of February 1945 in the Malate Remedios Hospital which was directly hit by a bomb; she was 52 years old) New York times, 3 Oct. 2022: in an obituary in the Overlooked series on page A20 (Maria Orosa; born Maria Ylagan Orosa on Nov. 29, 1893 in Taal, Philippines, died Feb. 13, 1945 in Manila [Philippines], aged 48; an innovative food scientist and Filipino nationalist who pioneered methods of canning and preserving native fruits, intent on making her country self-sufficient in food production; in 1916, when Orosa was 23, she traveled to the United States as a government-sponsored scholar and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry and pharmaceutical science at the University of Washington in Seattle; [back in the Philippines, Orosa] invented banana ketchup in the 1930s, now a staple on the shelves of Philippine grocery stores; also invented soyalac, and the palayok oven, an earthenware pot widely used for cooking in rural areas without electricity) |
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