Dr. Juan Salcedo is a scientist, who has greatly contributed immensely to the areas of biochemistry, nutrition, physiology. He is science administrator to science policy development, science promotion and scientific manpower development, he has published 265 works and researches in Philippine and foreign science journals.

Awards:·

• He is a recipient of many awards including the Ramon Magsaysay award for outstanding public health nutritionist in 1957·
• Republic Cultural Heritage award in science, 1966; and the Presidential Pro Patria award, 1969·
• During the time of Pres. Quirino, Dr. Salcedo served as Secretary of Health. He was also chairman of the National Science Development Board (NSDB) (1963-1970)·
• Chairman of the National Research Council of the Philippines (1961-1976).·
• Year elected as Academician: 1978·
• Year conferred as National Scientist: 1978

Eduardo San Juan (aka The Space Junkman) is a Filipino Mechanical Engineer Inventor. He worked on the team that invented the Lunar Rover or Moon Buggy. He is considered the primary designer of the Lunar Rover used by NASA astronauts. San Juan is a NASA engineer was also the designer for the Articulated Wheel System. Prior, to the Apollo Program, Eduardo San Juan worked on the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).Despite using home-made materials, his model which was chosen over other hi-tech designs.

The Moon Buggy was first used by during the Apollo 12 landing to explore the Moon, in 1971. Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969. He worked for Lockheed Corporation and conceptualized the design of the Moon Buggy that the Apollo astronauts used while in the moon. As a NASA engineer, San Juan reportedly used his Filipino ingenuity to build a vehicle that would run outside the Earth's atmosphere.

Education & Awards: ·

• Graduated from Mapua Institute of Technology.
• He then studied Nuclear Engineering at the University of Washington. ·
• In 1978, San Juan received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards in science and technology.

On a Personal Note:

Elisabeth San Juan, the proud daughter of Eduardo San Juan, had the following to say about her father. When my Father submitted the conceptual design for the Lunar Rover he submitted it via Brown Engineering, a company owned by Lady Bird Johnson. During the final test demonstration to select one design from various submissions, his was the only one that worked. Thus, his design won the NASA Contract. His overall concept and design of the Articulated Wheel System was considered brilliant. Each wheel appendage was mounted not underneath the vehicle, but were placed outside the body of the vehicle and each was motorized. Wheels could work independently of the others. It was designed to negotiate crater ingress and egress. The other vehicles did not make it into or out of the test crater. Our Father, Eduardo San Juan, was a very positively charged creative who enjoyed a healthy sense of humor.

Doctor Alfredo Santos is a Filipino Chemist. He is the best noted researcher in the chemistry of natural products, in particular the isolation and elucidation of the phaeantharine and other alkaloids from Philippine medical plants.

Degrees:

• BS in Pharmacy, University of the Philippines
• Doctorate in Pharmacy, University of Santo Tomas
• Doctorate in Philosophy, Westfalische Wilhelm’s Universidad Munster - 1929

Awards:

• 1953 - Outstanding Pharmacist Researcher of the Philippine Pharmaceutical Association
• 1954 - Magsaysay's Distinguished Service Star
• 1973 - PhilAAS Outstanding Scientist Award

Doctor Francisco Santos is a Filipino Agricultural Chemist. He studied the nutritive values and chemical composition of local foods from the Philippines. His data was used to help detect and solve problems with Filipino diets.

Degrees:

• A.B., University of the Philippines, 1914
• M.S., University of the Philippines, 1919
• Ph. D. Agricultural Chemistry, Yale University, 1922

Awards:

Doctor Francisco Santos was recipient of a number of awards including:

• Distinguished Service Medal for outstanding contribution in the field of nutrition among Filipinos, 1955
• Andres Soriano award in chemistry, 1956
• University of the Philippines Alumni award, 1979

Doctor Rosalinda C. Solevilla's has had huge contribution to pharmaceutical sciences, for research and that established the anti-microbial activities, diuretic, analgesic, anti-pyretic, and the anti-inflammatory properties of some Philippine medicinal plants. Her research findings contributed significantly in the promotion of the use of medicinal plants as alternative medicines, and in the government's program to improve the country's health care and healthy lifestyle.

Dr. Joventino Soriano was born on February 8, 1920. He was know and recognized for his studies on plant cytogenetics and mutations research some of which found publication in international journals. by using radiations and chemical mutagens. He has contributed to the elucidation of the mutation process.

Honors and Awards:·

• SEATO Research award, 1963·
• International Atomic Energy Agency Fellowship, 1962·
• Professorial Chair Botany at the University of the Philippines, 1974-76·
• UNESCO association in genetics such as the Genetics Society of America, American Genetics Association and the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding.

Teodulo Topacio, Jr. was born on November 30, 1924. He was greatly recognized for his his significant original contributions to knowledge in the area of leptospiral disease of domesticated animals which may serve as the basis for the institutional control measures for these diseases.

Dioscoor Umali is the UP College of Agriculture became a premier institution of higher learning in Asia because of this man's quest for excellence.

His researches made programs of rain fed and upland agriculture, social forestry, and environmental conservation.

Doctor Gregorio Velasquez is a distinguished scientist in Philippine psychology. He was conferred as National Scientist on 1982 and elected as Academician on 1978. Gregorio Velasquez spent intensive study over thirty years researching myxophyceae which is blue green algae which he received local and international recognition. He was a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Botany, University of the Philippines and rose from the ranks until he became Professor in Botany in 1958. He was appointed Emeritus Professor when he retired in November 1967.Degrees: Ø B.S. University of the Philippines - 1925 Ø M.S. University of the Philippines - 1931 Ø M.A. University of Michigan - 1937 Ø Ph. D. University of Michigan - 1939Awards: Ø 1956: Distinguished Science Medal and Diploma of Honor from the Republic of the Philippines Ø 1956: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Ø 1969: He is listed in the Men of Science, Division of Biological SciencesØ 1970 World's Who's Who in Sciences

1972: Republic of the Philippines Cultural Heritage Award

Dr. Carmen Velasquez is a noted Filipino biologist. Carmen Velasquez is a specialist in fish parasitological - the study of parasites and hosts among fish. Carmen Velasquez discovered thirty-two species and one new genus of digenetic trematodes (parasites) in local fish from the Philippines. She discovered new species of Philippine Food species, birds and mammals, among others.

List of Distinctions:

Carmen Velasquez is listed in the following

• American Men and Women of Science
• International Scholars' Directory
• International Who's Who of Intellectuals
• World Whos' Who of Women

University Degrees:

• BS (Zoology), University of the Philippines, 1934
• MS (Zoology), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1937
• Ph. D. (Parasitological) University of the Philippines, 1954

Edgardo Vazquez is the national president of the Filipino Inventors Society. He won a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) gold medal in 1995 for developing a modular housing system. Such a system called Vazbuilt is reportedly capable of building within weeks a house with prefabricated materials that can withstand typhoons and earthquakes. Ironically, Vasquez is not getting enough support from the Philippine government to propagate his technology, which could help provide shelter to some five million Filipino families without their own homes.

Benito Vergara is the conferred as National Scientist on 2001. He was born on June 23, 1934 and was Academician on 1987.

Education:·

• The National Scientist Vergara obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines·
• Master's degree from University of Hawaii·
• Doctoral degree from the University of Chicago majoring in Plant Sciences.

He worked full time on rice from 1961 to 1995. He was the Director for Administration before his early retirement from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). He is still involved with rice but has shifted his interest in ornamental plants and the development of the Philippine Science Heritage Center or Salinlahi.

He believes that his greatest contributions to science are his researches on rice, his numerous graduate students, his book on Farmer's Primer on Growing Rice, which has been translated into more than 40 languages, and his development of the Riceworld Museum and now the Philippine Science Heritage Center.He was conferred the rank and title of a National Scientist by the President of the Republic of the Philippines on 2001; the highest honor that can be bestowed to a man of science.

Gregorio Y. Zara (D.Sc. Physics) is one of the best known Filipino scientists who was born in Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines. He invented, made improvements to, or discovered the following:

• Invented the two-way television telephone or videophone (1955) patented as a "photo phone signal separator network"
• Discovered the physical law of electrical kinetic resistance called the Zara effect (around 1930)
• Invented an airplane engine that ran on plain alcohol as fuel (1952)
• 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)
• Designed a microscope with a collapsible stage
• Helped design the robot Marex X-10

List of accomplishments also includes the following awards:

• Presidential Diploma of Merit
• Distinguished Service Medal (1959) for his pioneering works and achievements in solar energy research, aeronautics and television.
• Presidential Gold Medal and Diploma of Honor for Science and Research (1966)
• Cultural Heritage Award for Science Education and Aero Engineering (1966)

Education:

• In 1926, Gregorio Zara graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• In 1927, he received his Masters degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
• In 1930, he graduated with a Doctorate of Physics from Sorbonne University.
• On September 30, 1954 Gregorio Zara's alcohol-fueled airplane engine was successfully tested and flown at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.