Pinoy Famous
My Top 10 Famous Filipino Scientists and Inventors
Angel Alcala has more than thirty years of experience in tropical marine resource conservation. Angel Alcala is considered a world class authority in ecology and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles, and is behind the invention of artificial coral reefs to be used for fisheries in Southeast Asia. Angel Alcala is the Director of the Angelo King Center for Research and Environmental Management.
Julian Banzon - Filipino Chemist Filipino chemist, Julian Banzon researched methods of producing alternative fuels. Julian Banzon experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut, and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process.
Roberto del Rosario - Filipino Inventor
Roberto del Rosario is the president of the Trebel Music Corporation and the inventor of the Karaoke Sing Along System in 1975. Roberto del Rosario has patented more than twenty inventions making him one of the most prolific Filipino inventor. Besides his famous Karaoke Sing Along System Roberto del Rosario has also invented.
Dr. Francisco Fronda
Dr. Francisco Fronda committed more than 6 decades of his life to teaching, research and additional services elected as Academician in 1979. He contributed hugely to the expansion of poultry industry not only in the Philippines but in Asia region as well. In recognition of his original contributions, the Philippine Association of Animal Science in 1980 cited him as the Father of Poultry Science in the Philippines and Father of Thai Poultry Industry honor presented by Her Royal Highness, the Crown Princess of Thailand in 1982.
Alfredo Santos - Filipino Chemist Dr. Alfredo Santos is known for his studies in the chemistry of natural harvest. He has completed a lot of work in the segregation and elucidation of the phaeantharine and other alkaloids from Philippine medical plants. He was elected as Academician in 1978 and conferred as National Scientist in 1978.
Lourdes Cruz - Filipina Biochemist
Doctor Lourdes Cruz has made scientific contributions to the biochemistry field of conotoxins, in particular the toxins of the venom of the marine snail Conus geographus. Lourdes Cruz documented the biochemical characterization of the homologous highly toxic monomeric peptides with internal disulfide bonds including: Conotoxin GI, Conotoxin GIA and Conotoxin GII. Lourdes Cruz has helped develop conotoxins for the purpose biochemical probes for examining the activities of the human brain.
Carmen Velasquez - Filipina biologist
Carmen Velasquez is a specialist in fish parasitology - the study of parasites and hosts among fish. Carmen Velasquez discovered thirty-two species and one new genus of digenetic trematodes (parasites) in local fish from the Philippines. She is listed in American Men and Women of Science, International Scholars' Directory, International Who's Who of Intellectuals, World Whos' Who of Women.
Doctor Fe Del Mundo Fe del Mundo was a Filipina pediatrician. She is the first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines in an active medical practice that spanned 8 decades won her international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1977. In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines while in 2010, she was conferred the Order of Lakandula.
Magdalena Cantoria- Filipina Botanist
Magdalena Cantoria is a noted Filipino botanist who is known for her research in the morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of drug plants, in particular agar, rauwolfia, datura, mint and Piper. Her document on the Morphology and Anatomy Rauvofia vomitoria Afz., Dr. Cantoria received the Edwin Leigh Newcomb Award pharmacognosy presented by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education in 1954. And in 1962, with Edward S. Mika, she was also awarded on the growth and development of Datura starmonium L.
Anacleto Del Rosario - Filipino Chemist
Filipino chemist, Anacleto Del Rosario won the first prize at the World Fair in Paris in 1881 for his formula for producing a pure kind of alcohol from tuba of a nipa palm. His research also led to the extraction of castor oil from a native plant called palma christi. Anacleto Sales Del Rosario was a leading Filipino chemist during the Spanish Period and was considered the Father of Philippine Laboratory Science. He founded the Botica San Fernando in Binondo and the College of Pharmacists.
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