José Salvador Gandolfo Pozzo, Argentine hydraulic engineer (Buenos Aires 30 March 1902 – 16 March 1989)

Authored over 30 works

METHODS/INVENTIONS

Patented a kind of bypass work for rivers without entrance of drag material (1951-2)

Gandolfo-Cotta shock absorber of kinetic energy for guided lamina (1956)

Gandolfo-Cotta shock absorber of kinetic energy for flood-gates outlay (1958)

Gandolfo-Cotta shock absorber of kinetic energy for laminated side (1959)

Gandolfo conjugated slopes method

Hydraulic servomechanism with constant level (1956) with Roberto Diego Cotta

HONORS

Golden Medal, Vermeil Societé d’Encouragement pour la Recherche et l’invention de France

Houssay Award, OAS (1975)