Science 4 Quarter 1 Week 1: Filipino Scientists

Study Notes

Filipino Scientists and Their Inventions

Fe del Mundo: First Asian at Harvard Medical School; invented the incubator; alumna of UP College of Medicine.
Gregorio Y. Zara: Renowned engineer and physicist from Lipa, Batangas; invented the videophone; MIT graduate in Mechanical Engineering (1926).
Daniel Dingel: Developed the water-powered car prototype starting in 1969.
Eduardo San Juan: Creator of the Lunar Rover, known as Moon Buggy; worked for Lockheed Corporation.
Angel Alcala: Innovator of artificial coral reefs.
Ramon Barba: Developed techniques for crop flowering; his work was recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization in relation to the mango industry.
Juan Salcedo Jr.: Developed "Enriched Rice," fortified with vitamin B1 to combat beriberi.
NS Juliano: Significant contributions to rice chemistry and technology, impacting global rice grain quality breeding.
Eduardo Quisumbing: Expert on Philippine medicinal plants; authored over 129 scientific articles; directed the National Museum of the Philippines, revitalizing the Herbarium.
Dioscoro Umali: Known as the Father of Philippine Plant Breeding; focused on rice, corn, abaca, and mussaenda.
Agapito Flores: Inventor of the fluorescent lamp; obtained a patent in Paris.
Narciso Mosuela: Created the Superkalan.
Fernando Paras Jr.: Inventor of the Balut Incubator.

Foreign Scientists and Their Contributions

Antony van Leeuwenhoek: Invented the microscope; first to discover and describe microorganisms; called the Father of bacteriology and protozoology.
Isaac Newton: Developed integral calculus; defined laws of motion and universal gravitation; built the first reflecting telescope.
Andreas Vesalius: Corrected misconceptions in human anatomy through dissections; significant Belgian anatomist and physician.
Louis Pasteur: Pioneered vaccination and pasteurization; made contributions to the first vaccines.
Michael Faraday: Conducted ground-breaking experiments in electricity and magnetism; contributed to understanding magnetic force lines.
Benjamin Franklin: Conducted major experiments on electricity; confirmed lightning as electricity.
Charles Darwin: Recognized as the Father of Evolution; established foundational theories in evolutionary biology.
Carolus Linnaeus: Known as the Father of Taxonomy; created a classification system for plants based on sexual organs.
Alexander Fleming: Discovered penicillin, marking a significant advance in antibiotics.
Alexander Graham Bell: Invented the telephone, revolutionizing communication.
Nicolas Copernicus: Formulated the heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the center of the solar system and asserting that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Lawrence Luellen: Invented the disposable cup, changing food and beverage consumption practices.
Albert Einstein: Developed the theory of relativity, fundamentally altering the understanding of time and space.