Gregorio Zaide

Legendary historian to Philippine history, Dr. Zaide has made noteworthy contributions. A diligent scholar, he authored 67 books, some were use as textbooks in history for secondary and colleges in the country. He has also…

Nick Joaquin

Nicomedes “Onching” M. Joaquin was born on May 4, 1917 in Paco, Manila. His mother was a public school teacher and a colonel father in the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Nick Joaquin started to write…

Cecilio Lopez

Elected as Academician in 1978, Dr. Lopez was named as the Father of the Philippine Linguistics. He is renowned because of his pioneering work in the growth of a Filipino custom in the scientific study…

Julian Banzon

Julian Banzon is known for his cleverness and creativity. This Filipino scientist declared that coconut could be a renewable resource of chemicals and fuel. He makes use of local equipments in approximately all his researches. His workings…

Luz Oliveros-Belardo

Luz Oliveros-Belardo was born on November 3, 1906. Luz Belardo uses up five decades of her life researching on the chemistry of natural products and essential oils from Philippine plants. She has haul out new…

Francisco Quisumbing

Francisco Quisumbing is a Filipino chemist who finished studies from the University of Chicago as American-sponsored pension ado. Following WWII, he tried to systematize the Philippine Ink Corporation under the Japanese Reparations Program, but was…

Clara Lim-Sylianco

Dr. Clara Lim-Sylianco was known on her works on mutagens, anti mutagens, and bioorganic mechanisms. She also authored schoolbooks that are still makes use in schools nowadays. She received the Gregorio Y. Zara award in…

Lourdes Cruz

Dr. Lourdes Cruz researches led in part to the biochemical classification of more than 50 biologically dynamic peptides from Conus venom, and the improvement of conotoxins as biochemical probes for testing the behavior of the…

Edgardo Gomez

He was born on November 7, 1938. Dr. Edgardo Gomez acknowledged because of his exceptional research triumphs on marine ecosystems that serve as foundation for the supervision and the protection programs for the country’s marine…

Bienvinido Juliano

Dr. Juliano studies concern properties of starch and protein and other grain superiority of rice. For example, he showed that any lose content of starch is the key determinant of eating quality of milled rice…