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, known_for = Is one of the main researchers on Alberto Santos Dumont , notable_works = , spouse = Myriam Moraes Lins de Barros , children = 3 , mother = Eurydice Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros , father = Henry British Lins de Barros Pessoa , relatives = João Alberto Lins de Barros (uncle) , awards =

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Santos-Dumont Merit Medal The Santos-Dumont Merit Medal is a Brazilian decoration created to honor civilians and military, Brazilian or foreign, for outstanding services rendered to the Brazilian Air Force or in recognition of its qualities and value in relation to aerona ...

National Order of Scientific Merit , website = , signature = , signature_size = Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros ( Rio de Janeiro, May 30, 1947) is a Brazilian physicist, biophysicist, writer, science communicator, musician, screenwriter, painter and poet.

Early years

His parents were Henry British (Navy official) and Eurydice Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros. His father and uncles played a part in the creation of the CBPF, together with César Lattes, one of the founding members and friend of Lins de Barros family. He was raised in Copacabana, where he developed his interest about airplanes when, together with his brothers, he learned to recognize the noise from the machines, since he lived in a apartment "where we almost couldn't see the sky".

Career

In 1964, Henrique started the engineering course in the Fluminense Federal University, changing after 18 months for a graduation in physics in PUC-RJ in 1970 and during this time he started, as a hobby, to create music. There, he received the diploma as master in atomic theory in 1973, where he also worked as a teacher. He became Doctor of Physics in the

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in 1978 and was director from the , 1992–2000, where in 1989, he developed an exposition about the scientific question from the 20th century. In the CBPF he works in the subject of biophysics. Where a joint investigation with UFRJ ended in the discovery of a multicellular bacterium. He's interested about

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, biophysics,

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, history of tecnics and consider himself as an experimental researcher, instead of a theorist.

Science communication

He started as a science communicator during the Brazilian military dictatorship during the 80s and also participated in conferences. Since he could not conciliate his work with his science communication efforts, he had to give up his productivity scholarship.

Santos-Dumont

He is considered the biggest expert in the live and work of Alberto Santos Dumont, having written four books about the Brazilian and is considered reference in Brazil and the rest of the world. His interest about this character started in the 80s, when he saw a replica of the 1909 Demoiselle, and started researching about the Dumont and his plane, with the goal to create a small scale replica for himself. He also challenges the idea that the Wright Brothers invented the airplane and agrees that this controversy in the country is a failure from the Brazilian science communication. According to him, there are a political pressure to talk about the Wright's and happened a clear campaign in the end of 1930s in for the Americans, despise it "doesn't have any historical basis", due the fact that the brothers never had "understood what is to takeoff", according to the researcher. With CNPJ investment, in 1985, he went to France to research about Santos Dumont thanks to a movie project from Tizuka Yamasaki and thanks all the data re compiled, in 1986 he wrote his first book, "Santos-Dumont". The movie was ultimately scrapped due budget constrains, but he was the screenwriter and composer of documentary, "O homem pode voar" (2003). In 2005, he participated in the construction of a

14-bis The ''14-bis'' (french: Quatorze-bis), (), also known as ("bird of prey" in French), was a pioneer era, canard-style biplane designed and built by Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1906, near Paris, the ''14-bis'' made a m ...

replica by Alan Calassa. In 2014 he took office as chief from the Museum of Environment.

Awards

Thanks his research about Santos Dumont, Henrique Lins the Barros was awarded with

as Grand-Officer on October 23, 2007. He also received the

, National Order of Scientific Merit and the ''Medalha 20 anos da Ciência Hoje''.

Works

Partial listing: BARROS, Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de. ''Santos Dumont: o homem voa!'' Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2000. __________. ''Santos Dumont e a invenção do vôo.'' Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 2003. * __________. ''Desafio de voar.'' São Paulo: Metalivros, 2006. ;Translations * *

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