Filipino Scientists
Felix Maramba - built a coconut oil-fueled power generator
Eduardo San Juan - astronomy - helped invent the Lunar Rover
Charle Mar Abelo - zoologist - study about animals
Jezrel Canlas - botany - study about plants
Jose Cruz- electrical engineering
Emerito de Guzman -work on the growth and development in vitro of the makapuno coconut
embryo
Caferiono Follosco - Electrical and Agricultural Engineering.
Francisco Fronda H development of poultry industry not only in the Philippines but in the Asia
region too.
Angel L. Lazaro III -Civil Engineer and Environmental Planner
Dr. Salcedo biochemistry, nutrition, physiology.
Gregario Velasquez -pioneered Philippine phycology and made the first intensive study of
Myxophyceae or bluegreen algae
Teodula MTopacio Jr -leptospiral disease of domistecated animals
Joventino Soriano - plant cytogenetics and mutations
Angel Alcala is behind the invention of artificial coral reefs used for fisheries in Southeast Asia.
Arturo Alcaraz is a volcanologist specializing in geothermal energy development.
Benjamin Almeda designed a food-processing machine.
Julian Banzon researched methods of producing alternative fuels.
Ramon Barba invented practical flower induction treatments.
Doctor Benjamin Cabrera has developed innovations in drug treatments against diseases
caused by mosquitoes and agricultural soil.
Paulo Campos built the first radioisotope laboratory in the Philippines.
Magdalena Cantoria is a noted Filipino botanist.
Josefino Comiso Filipino Physicist has been warning the world about global warming.
Doctor Lourdes Cruz has made scientific contributions to the biochemistry field of conotoxins.
Rolando De La Cruz Filipino scientist invented an anti cancer skin cream.
Emerita De Guzman researched the propagation of pure makapuno trees.
Doctor Fe Del Mundo is credited with studies leading to the invention of an improved incubator
and a jaundice relieving device.
Anacleto Del Rosario Filipino chemist won the first prize at the World Fair in Paris in 1881
Ernesto Del Rosario is Filipino chemist best known for his achievements in biotechnology and
applied physical chemistry.
Roberto Del Rosario is the inventor of the Karaoke Sing Along System.
Daniel Dingel claims to have invented a water-powered car.
Pedro Escuro is best known for his isolation of nine rice varieties.
Agapito Flores has been acclaimed by some as being the inventor of the first fluorescent lamp
Pedro Flores was the first person to manufactured the yo-yo in the United States.
Francisco Fronda is know as the Father of poultry science in the Philippines.
Carmen Intengan - Food and nutrition researcher a pioneer that helped improve the Filipino
diet.
Amando Kapauan was a Filipino chemist who specialized in environmental chemistry.
Hilario Lara helped establish the National Research Council of the Philippines.
Felix Maramba built a coconut oil-fueled power generator.
Luz Oliveros Belardo researched the phytochemical properties of plants in the Philippines for
natural products
Maria Orosa - Pioneering food inventor invented Calamansi Nip and Soyalac.
William Padolina has served as the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology for
the Philippines.
Eduardo Quisumbing was a noted expert in the medicinal plants of the Philippines.
Francisco Quisumbing invented Quink ink.
Dolores Ramirez promoted the development of genetics in the Philippines.
Jose Rodriguez is a noted Filipino scientist and researcher who has invented methods of
controlling leprosy.
Eduardo San Juan worked on the team that invented the Lunar Rover or Moon Buggy.
Alfredo Santos is a noted researcher in the chemistry of natural products.
Francisco Santos studied the nutritional problems associated with the Filipino diet.
Carmen Velasquez was a noted Filipino biologist.
Gregorio Zara - discovered the physical law of electrical kinetic resistance called the Zara
effect
Prescillano Zamora - is best known for his research in plant anatomy-morphology including the
taxonomy of Philippine ferns and the discovery of more fern species.
Foreign Scientists
Albert Einstein- Theory of Relativity, Atomic Bomb
Benjamin Franklin- electricity (lightning rod)
Galileo Galilei- first telescope, Father of Modern Physics, Modern Science
Gregor Johann Mendel- Heredity
James Maxwell- Electromagnetic Theory
Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
Alessandro Volta - Electrochemical Battery
Sir Isaac Newton - Law of Gravity
Thomas Alba Edison - Incandescent bulb
1) Dr Leo Henryk Sternbach (Croatia)
Inventor of benzodiazepines (Valium, Librium and several more). Changed medical science.
2) Marie Curie (French)
Winner of two nobel prizes
Discovered and coined the term radioactivity. She discovered two new elements polonium and radium.
She was the first to use radiation as a cancer treatment.
3) Louis Pasteur (French)
A founder of microbiology. First to apply the use of a vaccine (a name he coined) and understand that a
weakened bacteria could protect the body
6) Paul Janssen (Belgian) founder of founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica. Created more drugs than any
other person. Most notably haloperidol for the treatment of psychosis, fentanyl (a highly potent
narcotic) and its derivatives, most of the first drugs for menstrual pain, and about 80 other drugs.
7) Rosalind Franklin (English)
Best known for discovering the structure of DNA. Also helped discover structures of RNA and viruses.
8) Alexander Fleming (Scottish)
Nobel winner. Discoverer of the first antibiotic, Penicillin
9) Charles Darwin (English)
Evolution, natural selection.
10) Niels Bohr (Danish)
Physicist. Worked on the Manhattan Project, discovered much about the atom such as electrons orbit,
one of the first to work in quantum mechanics
