Dr. João Manuel and Cristiana,
I sent to Mr. Themistocles the following message in
response to his posting on Goan Inventors:
I saw your message and your proposal to have a list of Goan inventors.
In the true sense an inventor is a person with a recognized PATENT.
What YOU should do is COMPILE A LIST a WHO IS WHO List in different
Areas of Humanities, Science and Technology. And in a short line describe
that person's contribution to that area of Science.
There is a Person in Portugal who has done of Goans :
https://galeriadosgoesesilustres.blogs.sapo.pt/2020/02/ It has a
lots of mistakes also. No Criteria. If not mistaken some never lived in Goa
!!!!
This is my point of view
Warm regards
Carlos Peres da Costa MD
PhD
Mr. Themistocles replied , thanked me for my observation and suggested I
post it in GRN which I am doing.
The value of an Inventor is to register it as a PATENT, but what
about inventors of devices and techniques before the PATENT concept
started ?
Also to be organized it has to be divided in Areas.
I think what Mr. Themistocles is looking for is to Organize a Who
is Who List of Notable Goans. This also has to be divided into Areas and
Subareas of Science and the Year/ Century . This compilation of Goans
would be interesting. But please define when you start the compilation-
who is a Goan ! ( Born in Goa, not born in Goa but of Goan parents upto
what generation ?????)
Carlos Peres da Costa
cristiana bastos <[email protected]> escreveu no dia quarta,
8/11/2023 à(s) 09:07:
> As far as I got it correctly from Goa born, MIT trained and São Paulo
> resident Victor Froilano de Mello, he had several inventions related to
> bridges and dams. Not being an engineer I can't assess their relevance but
> I know he was a celebrity in Brazil. At least this patent is listed in
> his Biodata -- "Solidificação química dos solos (Patente Invenção n°US
> 2651619)" (Source: https://victorfbdemello.com.br/biodata/ )
>
> also of note, although not about a patent but about remarkable
> scholarship, the Goa-born historian Angela Barreto Xavier was a Infosys
> Laureate (humanities 2021): https://www.infosysprize.org/laureates.html
>
>
> cheers
>
>
>
> Cristiana Bastos
> Institute of Social Sciences | University of Lisbon | Av Anibal
> Bettencourt, 9 | 1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal
> *https://cristianabastos.org/ <https://cristianabastos.org/>*
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> On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:35 AM Santosh Helekar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Actually, almost all of the names listed in this thread do not qualify,
>> in terms of just holding even a single patent on something they have
>> "invented". I think only Dr. V. N. Shirodkar succeeded in patenting his
>> stitch.
>>
>> It is very easy nowadays to do a patent search on the internet and figure
>> out if someone has a patent granted, if they have a track record of
>> multiple publications (not just a one-off report in an obscure journal) on
>> the underlying invention, and if that invention has resulted in a
>> commercial product.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Santosh
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 5:00:19 PM UTC-6 John de Figueiredo wrote:
>>
>> Am I correct that you are only looking for scientists of Goan origin with
>> patents that resulted in commercial products? If so, some of the names
>> suggested would not qualify.
>> Also, what is the time frame of your study?
>> JM de Figueiredo
>>
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