BANZON, JULIAN A.
Ph. D. Biophysical Chemistry
• BS Chemistry, University of the Philippines, 1930
• Ph. D. (Biophysical Chemistry), Iowa State University, 1940
Year elected as Academician: 1981
Year conferred as National Scientist: 1986
Dr. Banzon has done a great deal of work on local materials especially coconut as the renewable source of chemicals and fuels. His work on the production of ethyl esters from sugarcane and coconut is the first study on fuels from these crops. He also devised some novel processes noteworthy among these is the extraction of residual coconut oil by chemical, rather than by physical processes
For these and many more significant scientific works, Dr. Banzon has been accorded honors and citations notably: Distinguished Service Award, Integrated Chemist of the Philippines, Inc. (1980), Chemist of the Year Award, Professional Regulation Commission (1978) and the PHILSUGIN Award for research, Crop Society of the Philippines, 1976.
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