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This document profiles 10 Filipino scientists and their contributions: 1. Arturo Alcaraz generated the first geothermal power in the Philippines using steam from a volcano in 1967. 2. Benjamin Almeda founded a company in 1954 that manufactured basic food processing machines he had invented. 3. Benjamin Cabrera has published over 100 scientific papers on medical parasitology and developed treatments for mosquito-borne diseases. 4. Paulo Campos built the Philippines' first radioisotope laboratory and has authored 75 scientific papers in nuclear medicine.

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Filipino Scientists

This document profiles 10 Filipino scientists and their contributions: 1. Arturo Alcaraz generated the first geothermal power in the Philippines using steam from a volcano in 1967. 2. Benjamin Almeda founded a company in 1954 that manufactured basic food processing machines he had invented. 3. Benjamin Cabrera has published over 100 scientific papers on medical parasitology and developed treatments for mosquito-borne diseases. 4. Paulo Campos built the Philippines' first radioisotope laboratory and has authored 75 scientific papers in nuclear medicine.

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1. Arturo Alcaraz.

Doctor Arturo Alcaraz is a volcanologist specializing in


geothermal energy development. In 1967, Arturo Alcaraz and team powered
an electric light bulb using steam-powered electricity. Power coming from a
Volcano near the town of Tiwi. This was the first geothermal power
generated in the Philippines. 
2. Benjamin Almeda. Benjamin Almeda designed a food-processing machine. In
1954, Benjamin Almeda founded the Almeda Cottage Industry (now the
Almedah Food Machineries Corporation) which manufactured his basic food
processing inventions including his rice grinder, meat grinder and coconut
grater. 
3. Benjamin Cabrera. Doctor Benjamin Cabrera has developed innovations in
drug treatments against diseases caused by mosquitoes and agricultural soil.
Doctor Benjamin Cabrera has written more than a hundred scientific
publications on medical parasitology and public health - in particle research
on filariasis. 1945 - M.D. at the University of the Philippines and 1950
-M.P.H.in Medical Parasitology and Public Health at Tulane University 
4. Paulo Campos. Filipino scientist, Paulo Campos built the first radioisotope
laboratory in the Philippines. Doctor Paulo Campos is a specialist in nuclear
medicine and the award-winning writer of over seventy-five scientific
papers.
5. Magdalena Cantoria. Magdalena Cantoria is a noted Filipino botanist who is
known for her research in the morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of
drug plants, agar, rauwolfia, datura, mint and Piper.
6. Josefino Comiso. Filipino Physicist Josefino Comiso has been warning the
world about global warming. Josefino Comiso was the first person to discover
a recurring polynya in the Cosmonaut Sea, south of the Indian Ocean. A
polynya is a semi-permanent area of open water in sea ice.
7. Lourdes Cruz. Doctor Lourdes Cruz has made scientific contributions to the
biochemistry field of conotoxins, the toxins of the venom of the marine snail
Conus geographus. Lourdes Cruz documented the biochemical
characterization of the homologous highly toxic monomeric peptides with
internal disulfide bonds.
8. Rolando De La Cruz. Filipino scientist Rolando De La Cruz invented an anti-
cancer skin cream. Rolando de la Cruz invented DeBCC an anti-cancer skin
cream made from cashew nuts and other local herbs from the Philippines.
Rolando de la Cruz's cream combats basal cell carcinoma or skin cancer
without causing any side effects. 
9. Fe Del Mundo. Filipino Doctor, Doctor Fe Del Mundo is credited with
studies that lead to the invention of an improved incubator and a jaundice
relieving device. She has dedicated her life to the cause of pediatrics in the
Philippines.
10. Daniel Dingel. Filipino Inventor. Daniel Dingel claims to have invented a
water-powered car. He designs cars that run on water. The Philippine Daily
Inquirer reported that Daniel Dingel built a water-fueled automobile engine
as early as 1969. Dingel has no patents and many members of the science
community feel that his water-powered car is a hoax. However, Daniel Dingel
has demonstrated his car without any technical papers or explanation as to
how it works. And if it does work, a water-powered car would be a fantastic
invention. 

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10 FILIPINO
SCIENTISTS
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

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