Alfredo Santos is a National Scientist born on

August 15, 1900, who devoted his life and career

on the study of chemistry of natural harvest and
the properties of Philippine medicinal plants. He
has finished a lot of work in the isolation and
elucidation of the phaeantharine and other
alkaloids from Philippine medical plants. Due to
his researches, he received outstanding awards
including President Magsaysays Distinguished
Service Star in 1954 and Outstanding Pharmacist
Researcher of the Philippine Pharmaceutical
Association in the year 1953. He finished his BS
degree on Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the
University of the Philippines and his doctorate
degree in Pharmacy in the University of Santo
Tomas in the year 1925.



Ernest Rutherford

(30 August 1871 19 October 1937) was a New
Zealand-born British physicist who became known
as the father of nuclear physics. Encyclopdia
Britannica considers him to be the greatest
experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791
1867). In early work he discovered the concept of
radioactive half-life, proved that radioactivity
involved the transmutation of one chemical element
to another, and also differentiated and
named alpha and beta radiation. This work was
done at McGill University in Canada. It is the basis
for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry he was awarded in
1908 "for his investigations into the disintegration
of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive
substances".