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Gregorio Ynciong Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) [1] was a Filipino engineer, physicist, a National Scientist, and inventor. He was known as the father of videoconferencing [2] for having invented the first two-way videophone.
Born to a native Filipino family, he gained high honors in Ateneo de Manila University and University of Santo Tomas, from Ateneo de Manila University he met Dr. José Rizal. He was known to be the first homegrown scientist of the Philippines by becoming the first Director of the Manila City laboratory.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda [7] (Spanish: [xoˈse riˈsal,-ˈθal], Tagalog: [hoˈse ɾiˈsal]; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
The first published poem of Canon was under the pseudonym kuitib, it was the sonnet a las dalagas malolenses which appeared in 1889 in the newspaper La Solidaridad. This ode to the young women of Malolos, who had requested Spanish classes in the evening, allowed Canon to make a poem about hidden progress and changes: Gold, though covered by slag, emerges much brighter through fire.
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1950) The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) Cave and Shadows (1983) [43] [44] Francisco Sionil Jose: 3 December 1924 Rosales, Pangasinan, Philippines 6 January 2022 Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines 1985, 1994, 2006: The Rosales Saga (1962–1984) Ermita (1988) Viajero (1993) Three Filipino Women (1992) [43 ...
Luz Oliveros-Belardo was director of the Natural Sciences Research Center at the Philippine Women's University.She became Dean of the College of Pharmacy in 1947. [4] Her research focused on extracting essential oils and other chemicals from native Philippine plants for pharmaceuticals, food production, scents, and other applications. [2]
ArmaLite M16 rifle was allegedly designed by a Filipino gunsmith Armando Lite (pronounced as LEE-teh). [62] Lunar Roving Vehicle used by the Apollo missions 15, 16, 17 was allegedly designed by a certain Filipino NASA engineer by the name of Eduardo San Juan. This has long been proven a hoax, as NASA has declassified its Apollo Mission papers.
Gregorio Velasquez (Calumpit) – National Scientist of the Philippines for Phycology; Francisco O. Santos (Calumpit) – National Scientist of the Philippines for Human Nutrition and Agricultural Chemistry; Virgilio Enriquez (Balagtas) – social psychologist known as Father of Filipino psychology "Ama ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino"