Filipino Inventors 1
This food scientist and humanitarian developed life-saving, nutrient-rich foods like Soyalac and OroLac during WWII, and famously invented Banana Ketchup.
Maria Orosa Ylagan
He is a world-renowned marine biologist who created the first artificial coral reefs in the Philippines to help rebuild damaged marine ecosystems.
Angel Alcala
A low-cost, electricity-free device made of woven baskets and hot water bottles used to save premature babies in rural areas.
bamboo incubator
A sweet, red condiment created from mashed bananas, vinegar, and spices to solve a wartime tomato shortage.
banana ketchup
This pioneering pediatrician was the first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School and invented an inexpensive bamboo incubator for rural communities lacking electricity.
Fe Del Mundo
Working as a physician in Iloilo, he discovered the antibiotic Erythromycin from soil samples, though a major global pharmaceutical company ultimately patented it under their own name.
Abelardo Aguilar
A 1955 device that transmitted both voice and live video over telephone lines, decades before Zoom or FaceTime.
two- way videophone
Silicon hardware that condensed system logic onto a single chip, drastically speeding up personal computer graphics.
GUI chip
This horticulturist revolutionized the local fruit industry by inventing a way to use etherel and potassium nitrate to force mango trees to flower regardless of the season.
Ramon Barba
An engineer and physicist who invented the first two-way television-telephone (videophone) system in 1955, long before apps like Zoom existed.
Gregorio Zara
An agricultural method using a potassium nitrate spray to force fruit trees to bloom out of season.
Flower Inducing technology/Mango flowering technology
Concrete and rubber underwater structures dropped into depleted coastlines to restore marine ecosystems.
artificial coral reefs
A tech icon in Silicon Valley, he invented the first single-chip 16-bit microprocessor and the first system logic chip set, paving the way for modern personal computers.
Diosdado "Dado" Banatao
A National Scientist and chemist who focused on alternative fuels, researching how to extract ethyl esters from sugarcane and coconut oil to produce a viable bio-fuel.
Julian Banzon
A chemical process extracting ethyl esters from local crops to create renewable alternative fuels.
bioethanol or bio fuel from coconut
A powerful, life-saving antibiotic isolated from a bacterial strain found in Iloilo soil samples.
Erhythromycin