Science 4: Filipino and Foreign Scientists PDF

**SCIENCE 4** **QUARTER 1 WEEK 1** **SCIENCE INVENTIONS** **FILIPINO SCIENTISTS** 1. **Fe del Mundo** - Invention: Incubator. - The first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University's School of Medicine. - She was an alumna of the University of the Philippines (UP) Col...

**SCIENCE 4** **QUARTER 1 WEEK 1** **SCIENCE INVENTIONS** **FILIPINO SCIENTISTS** 1. **Fe del Mundo** - Invention: Incubator. - The first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University's School of Medicine. - She was an alumna of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine. 2. **Gregorio Y. Zara** - Invention: Videophone - He is a renowned Filipino engineer and physicist. - He was the inventor of the first videophone. - A native of Lipa, Batangas - Enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, and graduated with a degree of BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1926. 3. **Daniel Dingel** - Invention: Water-powered car - 1969 - Daniel started working on a water-powered car and prototype. 4. **Eduardo San Juan** - Invention: Lunar Rover or popularly known as Moon Buggy - He worked for Lockheed Corporation. 5. **Angel Alcala** - Invention: Artificial Coral Reefs 6. **Ramon Barba** - Known for inventing techniques to promote crop flowering. - His work, which has helped develop mango industry, is the only invention in Southeast Asia that the World Intellectual Property Organization recognizes. 7. **Juan Salcedo Jr.** - Developed "Enriched Rice" a rice variety fortified with vitamin B1 which helps prevent beriberi. 8. **NS Juliano** - Known for his outstanding contributions to the chemistry and technology of rice and rice food products, which rationalizes breeding strategies for rice grain quality all throughout the world. 9. **Eduardo Quisumbing** - Was a noted expert in the medicinal plants of the Philippines. - He was the author of more than 129 scientific articles. - Served as the director of the National Museum of the Philippines where he rebuilt the Herbarium. 10. **Dioscoro Umali** - Known to be the Father of Philippine Plant Breeding. - He specialized in the breeding of rice, corn, abaca, and mussaenda. 11. **Agapito Flores** - Invention: Fluorescent Lamp - Sent to Paris where he got a patent for the invention. 12. **Narciso Mosuela** - Invention: Superkalan 13. **Fernando Paras Jr.** - Invention: Balut Incubator **FOREIGN SCIENTISTS** 1. **Antony van Leeuwenhoek** - Invention: Microscope - Discovered and described microorganisms for the first time. - Father of bacteriology and protozoology. 2. **Isaac Newton** - Inventions: Integral Calculus. - Defined the laws of motion and universal gravitation. - Constructed first reflecting telescope. 3. **Andreas Vesalius - Biology** - A Belgian anatomist and physician whose dissections of the human body and descriptions of his findings helped to correct misconceptions prevailing since ancient times. 4. **Louis Pasteur** - Vaccination and pasteurization. - Contributed to the development of the first vaccines. 5. **Micahel Faraday** - Known for his pioneering experiments in electricity and magnetism. - Lines of magnetic force. 6. **Benjamin Franklin** - Undertook major scientific experiments with electricity, of which little was known at the time - Verified that lightning is in fact, electricity. 7. **Charles Darwin** - Father of Evolution. 8. **Carolus Linnaeus** - Father of Taxonomy - Introduced a system of classification of plants based on their sexuall organs. 9. **Alexander Fleming** - Invention: penicillin / antibiotic 10. **Alexander Graham Bell** - Invention: Telephone 11. **Nicolas Copernicus** - Heliocentric concept, the sun is the center of the solar system. - He discovered that the earth is not in the center of the universe but it circles the Sun. 12. **Lawrence Luellen** - Invention: Disposable cup. 13. **Albert Einstein** - Theory of relativity