Arturo Pineda Alcaraz

PHYSICIST NAME: Arturo Pineda Alcaraz
STUDENT NAME:Angela Mari Peralta

BIOGRAPHY

• born on March 21, 1916

•second child of Conrado Alcaraz and Paz Pineda.

•is a Filipino volcanologist and a 1982 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for government service.

•He earned his Bachelor's degree in Marine Engineering from the Mapua Institute of Technologyin 1937, and finished his Master of Science in Geology at the University of Wisconsin in 1941,through the help of the Philippine Commonwealth government.

•He also received further training and education from other United States universities,such as the University of Berkeley, where he received a Certificate in Volcanology after attending two semesters.

CONTRIBUTIONS

•In May 1942, he became Chief Geophysicist of the Philippine Weather Bureau.

•In 1947, he had his first close-range experience of volcanic eruption when Mayon Volcano
in the Bicol region of southern Luzon erupted.

•In 1948, he received a grant from the United States Government to study microseismology at Opalocka Naval Air Station in Florida.

•In 1951, the Commission on Volcanology (ComVol) was officially created under the
National Research Council and appointed Alcaraz as Chief Volcanologist which he held until 1974.

•In 1955, Alcaraz received a Guggenheim Fellowship award and took two semesters of study at the University of California at Berkeley from which he received a Certificate in Volcanology.

•a leading member of a team that used steam produced from the heat of a volcano
to produce electric power in 1967.

•In the 1980s, the Philippines even attained the second highest geothermal generating capacity
in the world, besting mentor countries Italy and New Zealand.

OBJECT OF INTEREST

I choose Arturo Pineda Alcaraz, first of all he is a Filipino and that is very important to me because he make something that all the Filipino's will be proud of him. Also he invented something that make our country popular. He contributed something that we can use for the future. His patience lead him to his success!