Famous Filipino in The Field of Science
Famous Filipino in The Field of Science
Famous Filipino in The Field of Science
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
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.
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.
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
one- chip 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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