FILIPINO CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
SCIENTIST
Luz Oliveros-Belardo
Her research focused on extracting essential oils and other
chemicals from native Philippine plants, for pharmaceuticals, food
production, scents, and other applications. For example, she
developed an experimental formulation based on apitong
(Dipterocarpus grandiflorus) oleoresin that was suitable for a
motor fuel.
Dr. Paulo C. Campos
Campos likewise pursued research on whether there was
a genetic factor that contributed to endemic goiter. He proposed
that the iodine intake deficiency thought to be the main cause of
goiter was just one of the triggering factors of the disease, and that
physiology and anatomy proved to be more important
considerations as some people were born without the enzyme
necessary to take in trace elements such as iodine even if it were
present in food and water.
Josefino Comiso
Filipino Physicist Josefino Comiso has been warning the world
about global warming. Josefino Comiso is a Filipino physicist
working at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center studing global
warming in the Arctic. Josefino Comiso was the first person to
discover a recurring polynya in the Cosmonaut Sea, south of the
Indian Ocean. A polynya is a semipermanent area of open water
in sea ice.
Quisumbing was author of taxonomic and morphological
papers, many of which deal with orchids, including
‘Medicinal plants in the Philippines’ (Manila 1951).
Saccolabium quisumbingii has been named in his honour.
He was recipient of the Distinguished Service Star (1954)
for outstanding contribution to the field of
systematic botany
Eduardo Quisumbing
Diosdado P. Banatao
Developed the first single-chip graphical user interface
accelerator that made computers work much faster. This
invention has allowed computer users to use graphics for
commands and not the usual typed commands in older
computers. It has allowed data processing to be a little faster
using very little space, with small chips instead of large
boards.
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Lucille Abad
She developed a plant vitamin – an effective plant growth
promoter using irradiated seaweeds. This research has also
been recognized by the Japan-based Forum for Nuclear
Cooperation in Asia.
Julius Sempio Julius Sempio is a scientist who stayed home, although his
assignment takes him out of this world.
Sempio, who specializes in geoinformatics and remote
sensing, is helping develop an effective archive and
database for images coming from Diwata-1, a Philippine
microsatellite launched into orbit last year, and the future
Diwata-2. The system ensures data from the Diwata
satellites “will be readily accessible for applications such as
mapping, monitoring the environment and detecting
changes in land features and land usage
He’s a US-based chemical engineer, but he was born in
Bacolod City and graduated from Adamson University.
Dr. Leonardo Gasendo created a self-charging vehicle that
could travel multiple roundtrips from New York to Los
Angeles without consuming the entire charge of its on-board
battery.
His vehicle, the Long Distance Electric Vehicle (LDEV),
was granted a U.S. Patent by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office last September 13. They help convert
wheel vibrations and cruising speed into electricity, thereby
charging the on-board battery during transit.
Dr. Leonardo Gasendo
Lyka S. Diaz
BS-CHEMISTRY IA
FILIPINO SCIENTIST | CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
INVENTOR
Filipino Doctor, Doctor Fe Del Mundo is credited with studies that
lead to the invention of an improved incubator and a jaundice
relieving device.
She has dedicated her life to the cause of pediatrics in the Philippines.
Fe Del Mundo - Awards: In 1966, Fe Del Mundo received the
Elizabeth Blackwell Award for "outstanding service to mankind";
In 1977, Fe Del Mundo received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
outstanding public service; and She also received the 15th
International Congress of Pediatrics award as most outstanding
pediatrician and humanitarian in 1977.
Dr. Fe Villanueva del Mundo
This Filipino scientist declared that coconut could be a renewable
resource of chemicals and fuel. He makes use of local equipment in
approximately all his researches.
His workings consist of studies on coconut and sugarcane. He said
that, coconut could be renewable sources of chemicals and fuels. He
also revealed that ethyl esters could be taken from sugarcane.
Julian Banzon
Alcaraz is best-known as the Philippines' "Father of
Geothermal Energy Development" due to his contributions to
studies about Philippine volcanology and the energy derived
from volcanic sources. His main contribution was the study
and establishment of geothermal power plants in the
Philippines. In the 1980s, the Philippines attained the second-
highest geothermal generating capacity in the world, in great
part due to Alcaraz's contributions.
Dr. Arturo Alcaraz
Is a Filipino biochemist whose research has contributed to the
understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the venom
of fish-hunting Conus marine snails. The characterization of over 50
biologically active peptides from the snail's venom had been made
possible, in part, by her studies.
She has also contributed to the development of conotoxins as tools
for examining the activity of the human brain. For instance, w-
conotoxin (widely used for studying neutral calcium channels) and
m-conotoxin (used when muscular activity must be controlled to
examine events at the synapse).
Lourdes J. Cruz
Fr. Nebres has conducted studies in the first-order logic, as
mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists
mostly do and in in finitary logics. Fr. Nebres studied the
characterization of in finitary sentences preserved under unions of
models.
His expertise in infinitary logics allowed him to venture into research
in model theory and develop applications of the theory to analysis
and algebra.
Fr. Bienvenido Nebres
The Zara Effect – He discovered the physical law of
electrical kinetic resistance called the Zara effect (around
1930)
He improved methods of producing solar energy including
creating new designs for a solar water heater (SolarSorber);
A sun stove, and a solar battery (1960s);
Invented a propeller-cutting machine (1952);
He designed a microscope with a collapsible stage;
helped design the robot Marex X-10;
Invented the two-way television telephone or videophone
(1955) patented as a "photo phone signal separator
network";
Invented an airplane engine that ran on plain alcohol as
Dr. Gregorio Y. Zara fuel (1952);
Dr. Velasquez is a pioneer in Philippine physiology. He was elected
as Academician on 1978 and conferred as National Scientist on
1982. He made the original intensive study of the local
Myxophyceae or the blue green algae and dedicates at least 30 years
of fruitful work in the study of Philippine algae from which he
acknowledged local and international credit.
Gregorio Velasquez
He was known as Ph. D. (honoris causa) Mechanical, Electrical
and Agricultural Engineering. Follosco was known for his excellent
works and undertakings in the field of engineering (agricultural
mechanization and automotive), technology modernization, public
sector domination embracing a wild field of creative approaches in
engineering and bureaucracy, formulating and implementing laws
and programs for small and medium enterprises and S&T
administration, with technology transfer, R&D, Engineering and
Science Education, Institutional Building.
Dr. Ceferino Follosco
Katherine Leigh M. Moreno
BS-CHEMSTRY 1A
