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    Antonio Luna was a Filipino scientist and military leader. He was born in 1866 in Manila and studied chemistry, earning multiple advanced degrees from universities in Spain and conducting research in Paris and Belgium. Luna returned to the Philippines in 1894 with a grant to study tropical diseases. He made contributions to environmental science and forensic science. During the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule, Luna joined the resistance and was exiled to Spain, but returned to help lead the Philippine military against the United States after the Spanish ceded control in 1898. However, he was assassinated by his own troops in 1899 due to his strict leadership style.

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    Antonio Luna was a Filipino scientist and military leader. He was born in 1866 in Manila and studied chemistry, earning multiple advanced degrees from universities in Spain and conducting research in Paris and Belgium. Luna returned to the Philippines in 1894 with a grant to study tropical diseases. He made contributions to environmental science and forensic science. During the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule, Luna joined the resistance and was exiled to Spain, but returned to help lead the Philippine military against the United States after the Spanish ceded control in 1898. However, he was assassinated by his own troops in 1899 due to his strict leadership style.

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    Antonio Luna was a Filipino scientist and military leader. He was born in 1866 in Manila and studied chemistry, earning multiple advanced degrees from universities in Spain and conducting research in Paris and Belgium. Luna returned to the Philippines in 1894 with a grant to study tropical diseases. He made contributions to environmental science and forensic science. During the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial rule, Luna joined the resistance and was exiled to Spain, but returned to help lead the Philippine military against the United States after the Spanish ceded control in 1898. However, he was assassinated by his own troops in 1899 due to his strict leadership style.

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    Antonio Luna Biography

    Early Life
     The youngest of seven children, Luna was born in Binondo, the commercial district
    of Manila, on October 29, 1866.
     His college Jesuit teachers recognized his aptitude in chemistry, and encouraged
    him to study it further. He did study it, along with literature, at the University of Santo
    Tomas, where his essay entitled "Dos Cuerpos Fundamentales de la Quimica" ("Two
    Fundamental Bodies of Chemistry") won first prize in a competition.
     At the University of Santo Tomas, Luna also studied music, military science, and
    marksmanship.
    Studies and Grants
    In 1886 Luna moved to Madrid, where he earned a Licentiate in Pharmacy. He went on
    to earn a Doctorate in Pharmacy in 1890, and his doctoral examiners said he did
    extremely well.
     His 1893 doctoral thesis on malaria, entitled "El Hematozoario del Paludismo," was
    favorably recognized by both physicians and medical scientists.
     After completing his doctorate, Luna moved on to Paris, where he
    researched bacteriology and histology at the Pasteur Institute, and later to Belgium,
    where he studied medical chemistry.
    After being given a grant for research in 1894 from the Spanish government, Luna
    moved back to his home of Manila. The grant was to be used to study tropical and
    communicable diseases.
     Antonio took a post as the Chemist Expert of the Municipal Laboratory of Manila,
    where he was the first person to conduct environmental science studies. These
    studies included researching the contents of several sources of water, which he
    found to be unfit to drink.
     He also was the first person to conduct a study on Philippine forensic science,
    studying human blood and how it could be used as evidence when investigating
    crimes.
    Fencing, Revolution and Politics
    While juggling all his scientific research, Luna also opened a fencing club in Manila, and
    this is when his focus shifted.
     He learned about the secret societies that existed in hopes of starting a Philippine
    revolution to gain independence from Spain. One such society was called the
    Katipunan, which had begun in 1892.
     Though he did not think the Filipinos were prepared to stage an actual revolution,
    his name became linked with the Katipunan, an anti-Spanish revolutionary society.
    When the Katipunan was discovered in 1896, Luna and his brother Juan were
    arrested and put in jail in Fort Santiago.
     Juan was later released, but Antonio was exiled to Spain in 1897 and put in prison in
    Madrid. Juan worked to have his brother released. However, his release was
    granted with the condition that Antonio not leave Spain, by which he did not
    abide.
     During his time in prison he had decided to join the revolution and, after studying
    military science and strategy in several European cities, he returned to the
    Philippines in July 1898.
    Life in Military.
     He started a military academy and became known as a strict disciplinarian, which
    made him rather unpopular among the soldiers he trained.
     He began a newspaper that was published daily with the goal of uniting the Filipino
    people around the idea of becoming an independent nation. The paper was a
    huge success.
    December of 1898 brought the Treaty of Paris, in which Spain turned control of the
    Philippines over to the United States. The battles that followed between the Philippine
    and American armies were horrific. Insubordination and confusion among Filipino troops
    eventually caused Luna to resign as general, though three weeks later he returned to
    the army.
    On June 5, 1899, he was assassinated by physical force and stabbing by his own
    people - Filipino soldiers whom Luna had either insulted, arrested, or disarmed for
    insubordination. Antonio Luna is known as one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
    Filipino general.

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