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Famous Filipino in the field of science Scientists greatly help in the economic development of a country. In the Philippines, we have a number of renowned scientists and technologists whose exemplary works and discoveries have contributed to the progress of different industries.

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FAMOUS FILIPINO SCIENTISTS & THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS 1. Dr. Ramon Cabanos Barba Was named a National Scientist of the Philippines in 2014 for inventing a way to induce flowering in mango trees regardless of season, boosting the local mango industry. 2. Dr. Josefino Cacas Comiso He is NASA’s Filipino physicist He has studied many polar processes and was among the first researchers to report dramatic changes in the Arctic Sea ice cover and accelerated warming at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. He is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Achievement in Science Medal (one of the most prestigious award given to a NASA scientist) and many other awards. 3. Dr. Jose Bejar Cruz Known internationally in the field of engineering and for outstanding contributions to the field of automatic control in research, teaching, and service.

4. Dr. Lourdes J. Cruz She was lauded for her research on Conus geographus, a marine snail found in the Philippines. Working alongside fellow experts, she studied the properties of the snail’s venom, which were unknown at the time. Their research paved the way toward finding practical uses for conotoxins, leading to breakthroughs in neuroscience and medicine.

5. Dr. Fabian Millar Dayrit Known for his phytochemical work for the development of lagundi as part of the National Integrated Research Program on Medicinal Plants. He has worked on other important natural products, including medicinal plants, coconut oil, and carrageenan. He is currently focused on the development of standardization and profiling methods for medicinal plants.

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6. Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero Was recognized because of his scientific and technical contributions to the growth of Sex Reversal and Hatchery Techniques that help the commercial fabrication of high yielding marketsize tilapia in the Philippines and other nations.

7. Dr. Enrique Mapua Ostrea Jr. He pioneered the use of meconium in the testing the mother’s abuse of drugs during the course of pregnancy. A Filipino medical doctor known for his researches in pediatrics.

8. Dr. Lilian F. Patena Develops tissue culture for garlic production. Discovered a breed of calamansi and seedless pomelo and discovered micropropagation which established the banana industry in the Philippines. She is also an inventor of leaf-bud cutting in cassava.

9. Dr. Mari-Jo Ruiz Known locally and internationally as an expert in graph theory and operations research, and her expertise is valued not only in the academe but in different industries and sectors as well.

10. Dr. Gregory L. Tangonan He has contributed to the development of integrated waveguide detectors, Bragg modulators, waveguide couplers for WDM systems, and all-optical networking techniques for analog and digital signals. Science and Technology in the Philippines: Filipino Inventions and Discoveries 20th Century Inventions and Discoveries

1. Fe del Mundo - She was an alumna of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine. The first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University School of Medicine. Invention: Incubator An incubator is an apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for newborn baby. It is used in pre-term births or for some ill full-term babies.

2. Gregorio Y. Zara - He was the inventor of the first videophone. A native of Lipa, Batangas and enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, and graduated

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with a degree of BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1926.He is a renowned Filipino engineer and physicist. Invention: Videophone Videophone (1955) The two-way television telephone or videophone in 1955patented as a "photophone signal separator network.

3. Agapito Flores - He is the inventor of the fluorescent lamp, which is the most widely used source of lighting in the world today. Invention: Fluorescent Lamp The fluorescent lamp reportedly got its name from Flores. The fluorescent lamp, however, was not invented in a particular year. It was the product of 79 years of the development of the lighting method that began with the invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas Edison.

4. Daniel Dingel – he started working on a water-powered car and prototype in 1969. Invention: Water-powered car His hydrogen reactor uses electricity from a 12-volt car battery to transform ordinary tap water with salt into deuterium oxide or heavy water. Dingel’s car has never been patented and commercialized because of what he suspects as an anti-Dingel car conspiracy by multinational oil companies. 5. Eduardo San Juan – he was the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. He was NASA’s engineer, San Juan reportedly used his Filipino ingenuity to build a vehicle that would run outside the Earth atmosphere. Invention: Moon Buggy (Lunar Rover) The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969. He worked for Lock heed Corporation and conceptualized the design of the Moon Buggy that the Apollo astronauts used while in the moon. He constructed his model using homemade materials.

6. Diosdado Banatao - he was known for introducing the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator that made computers work a lot faster and for helping develop the Ethernet controller chip that made Internet possible. Invention: GUI (Graphical User Interface) In 1989, he pioneered the local bus concept for personal computers and in the following year developed the First Windows accelerator chip. Intel is now using the chips and technologies developed by Banatao.

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7. Angel Chua Alcala - he was behind the invention of artificial coral reefs used for fisheries in Southeast Asia. Invention: Artificial Coral Reefs An artificial reef is a manmade structure that may mimic some of the characteristics of a natural reef. The goal of these artificial reefs is generally to provide a stable growing area for corals, and habitat for fishes and all the other organisms that you would find on a natural reef.

8. Julian Banzon - He experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut, and invented a means of extracting residual coconut and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. Invention: Alternative fuels Banzon gained recognition for his notable researches on the Philippine coconut and other indigenous materials as “renewable sources of chemicals and fuels.”

9. Marc Loinaz - The inventor of the one-chip video camera, a Filipino resident of New Jersey who works with Lucent Technologies. Invention: One-chip video camera The 1-chip camera uses a single computer chip to process the colors the camera sees. Most videos fora Web site used with a 1-chipcamera mainly because the video is compressed in onechip camera so it transmits more quickly.

10. Roberto del Rosario - a Filipino, claiming the right for the invention of the Sing-Along-System (SAS) thateventually led to thedevelopment of Karaoke, a Japanese term for "singing without accompaniment". He developed a sing alongsystem in 1975 andpatented it in the 1980. Invention: Karaoke (1975) Called his sing-along system "Minus-One", now holds the patent for the device now commonly known as the "karaoke machine".

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