Interesting! My final year Civil Engineering project at GEC, Farmagudi alongwith three more colleagues, was about designing an earthen dam for Ponda area. Unusual construction material, clay. We did refer to various sources in hard copy - as there was no internet in Goa in early 1990's - and I think I recall the Mello surname, from one of our references. I thought he was Brazilian, not Goan, so paid no more attention to it! Regards, Joao Paulo Cota
________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of cristiana bastos <[email protected]> Sent: 08 November 2023 12:07 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GRN] Goan Inventors 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/ On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:35 AM Santosh Helekar <[email protected]<mailto:[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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/82dcae24-0a93-4457-980b-0260d6d4eba6n%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/82dcae24-0a93-4457-980b-0260d6d4eba6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJ_erVNJtjOCvkXvCjFdTXfMCb93QhAR3ctTJLB6Rw2kh2_toQ%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAJ_erVNJtjOCvkXvCjFdTXfMCb93QhAR3ctTJLB6Rw2kh2_toQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/GV2P195MB216110D2E0591ABEDA3BDF3182A8A%40GV2P195MB2161.EURP195.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
