Henrique Lins de Barros
{{Short description|Brazilian polymath (born 1947)}}
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| birth_name = Henrique Gomes da Paiva Lins de Barros
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|05|30}}
| birth_place = Rio de Janeiro
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| nationality = Brazilian
| alma_mater = PUC-RJ
| occupation = Biophysicist
writer
biographer
| years_active = 1964-present
| employer = Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas{{Cite web|url=https://sites.usp.br/iearp/santos-dumont-cientista-e-inventor/|title=Santos Dumont: Cientista e Inventor|language=pt-br|author=José Rafael Sica|date=November 12, 2012|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812042946/https://sites.usp.br/iearp/santos-dumont-cientista-e-inventor/|archive-date=August 12, 2020|url-status=live}}
| known_for = Is one of the main researchers on Alberto Santos Dumont
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| spouse = Myriam Moraes Lins de Barros{{Cite web|url=http://www.genealogiabr.com/lins/henrique-lins-barros.html|title=Henrique Lins de Barros|language=pt-br|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119184216/http://www.genealogiabr.com/lins/henrique-lins-barros.html|archive-date=January 19, 2021|url-status=live}}
| mother = Eurydice Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros
| father = Henry British Lins de Barros Pessoa
| relatives = João Alberto Lins de Barros (uncle)
| awards = Order of Aeronautical Merit
Santos-Dumont Merit Medal
National Order of Scientific Merit
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Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros (born May 30, 1947) is a Brazilian physicist, biophysicist, writer, science communicator specialist, musician, screenwriter, painter, and poet.
Early years
His parents were Henry British (a Navy official) and Eurydice Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros. His father and uncles participated in the creation of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), along with César Lattes, one of the founding members{{Cite web|url=https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/dialogo-equacionado/|title=Diálogo equacionado|language=pt-br|author=Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade|date=March 2007|access-date=May 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115173903/https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/dialogo-equacionado/|archive-date=January 15, 2021|url-status=live}} and a friend of the Lins de Barros family.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/unicamp_hoje/ju/marco2005/ju281pag7a.html|title=O insondável e as razões da coincidência|language=pt-br|author=Henrique Lins de Barros|date=2005|access-date=May 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404021020/https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/unicamp_hoje/ju/marco2005/ju281pag7a.html|archive-date=April 4, 2005|url-status=live}} Raised in Copacabana in an apartment "where we almost couldn't see the sky", he and his brothers developed an interest in airplanes and learned to recognize them by their sound.
Career
In 1964, Henrique began studying engineering at the Fluminense Federal University, switching after 18 months to physics at PUC-RJ before graduating in 1970. During this time, he began creating music as a hobby. He received a master's degree in atomic theory in 1973,{{Cite web|url=http://www.fiocruz.br/brasiliana/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?infoid=92&sid=31|title=O homem que sabia voar|language=pt-br|access-date=May 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502221139/http://www.fiocruz.br/brasiliana/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?infoid=92&sid=31|archive-date=May 2, 2021|url-status=live}} and also worked as a teacher there.
He earned a doctorate in Physics from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics in 1978 and served as its director from {{ill|Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins|pt|Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins}}, 1992–2000.{{Cite web|url=http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4727226Z3|title=Henrique Gomes de Paiva Lins de Barros|language=pt-br|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828073801/http://buscatextual.cnpq.br:80/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4727226Z3|archive-date=August 28, 2008|url-status=dead}} In 1989, he developed an exposition about 20th-century scientific questions. At the CBPF, he works in the field of biophysics, and a joint investigation with UFRJ resulted in the discovery of a multicellular bacterium.{{Cite web|url=https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/do-atomo-ao-aviao/|title=Henrique Lins de Barros: Do átomo ao avião|language=pt-br|author=Neldson Marcolin|date=August 2007|edition=137|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925225829/https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/do-atomo-ao-aviao/|archive-date=September 25, 2020|url-status=live}}
His research interests include atomic physics, biophysics, the history of science and technology. He considers himself an experimentalist rather than a theorist.
=Science communication=
He began as a science communicator during the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 1980s and participated in conferences. Unable to balance his academic work with his science communication efforts, he discontinued his scholarly work.
=Santos-Dumont=
He is considered an expert on the life and work of Alberto Santos Dumont, having written four books about the Brazilian aviator and is considered a reference in Brazil and worldwide. His interest in Santos Dumont began in the 1980s when he saw a replica of the 1909 Demoiselle. He began researching Dumont and his plane, aiming to create a small-scale replica for himself. He also disputes the notion that the Wright Brothers invented the airplane, asserting that the controversy in Brazil reflects a failure of Brazilian science communication. According to him, political pressure favors discussing the Wrights, and a clear campaign occurred in the late 1930s on behalf of the Americans, despite it lacking "any historical basis," because the brothers never "understood what it is to takeoff," according to the researcher.
With CNPJ investment, he traveled to France in 1985 to research Santos Dumont for a film project by Tizuka Yamasaki. Compiling the data, he wrote his first book, "Santos-Dumont," in 1986. The movie was ultimately scrapped due to budget constraints, but he was the screenwriter and composer of the {{ill|Nelson Hoineff|pt|Nelson Hoineff}} documentary, "O homem pode voar" (2003).
In 2005, he participated in the construction of a 14-bis replica by Alan Calassa. In 2014, he took office as chief of the Museum of Environment.
Awards
For his research on Santos Dumont, Henrique Lins de Barros was awarded the Order of Aeronautical Merit as Grand-Officer
on October 23, 2007. He also received the Santos-Dumont Merit Medal and the National Order of Scientific Merit{{Cite web|url=https://portal.cbpf.br/pt-br/ultimas-noticias/o-menino-que-escutava-avioes-entrevista-com-henrique-lins-de-barros|title=Henrique Lins de Barros, do CBPF, é agraciado com a Ordem do Mérito Aeronáutico no grau de Grande-Oficial|language=pt-br|date=October 25, 2017|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502225848/https://portal.cbpf.br/pt-br/ultimas-noticias/o-menino-que-escutava-avioes-entrevista-com-henrique-lins-de-barros|archive-date=May 2, 2021|url-status=live}}.Medalha 20 anos da Ciência Hoje{{Cite web|url=http://www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/fisico-henrique-lins-de-barros-assume-a-chefia-do-museu-do-meio-ambiente/|title=Físico Henrique Lins de Barros assume a chefia do Museu do Meio Ambiente|language=pt-br|date=January 2014|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806040033/http://www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/fisico-henrique-lins-de-barros-assume-a-chefia-do-museu-do-meio-ambiente/|archive-date=August 6, 2019|url-status=live}}
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.
- {{Cite book|last=BARROS|first=Henrique Lins de|url=https://portal.cbpf.br/downloads/divulgacao-cientifica/livros/SantosDumont.pdf|title=Santos-Dumont e a Invenção do Avião|language=pt-br|date=2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427141419/https://portal.cbpf.br/downloads/divulgacao-cientifica/livros/SantosDumont.pdf|archive-date=April 27, 2021|url-status=dead|pages=20|publisher=CBPF|isbn=85-85752-16-5|place=Rio de Janeiro}}
__________. Desafio de voar. São Paulo: Metalivros, 2006.
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- {{Cite book|last=BARROS|first=Henrique Lins de|url=https://portal.cbpf.br/downloads/divulgacao-cientifica/livros/SantosDumont_English.pdf|title=Santos-Dumont and the Invention of the Airplane|date=2006|pages=24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427013011/https://portal.cbpf.br/downloads/divulgacao-cientifica/livros/SantosDumont_English.pdf|archive-date=April 27, 2021|language=en|url-status=dead|publisher=CBPF|place=Rio de Janeiro|isbn=85-85752-17-3|translator=Maria Cristina Ramalho Ardoy}}
- {{Cite book|last=BARROS|first=Henrique Lins de|url=https://portal.cbpf.br/downloads/divulgacao-cientifica/livros/SantosDumont_ESPANHOL.pdf|title=Santos-Dumont Y La Invención del Avión|date=2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427013311/https://portal.cbpf.br/downloads/divulgacao-cientifica/livros/SantosDumont_ESPANHOL.pdf|archive-date=April 27, 2021|url-status=dead|language=es|publisher=CBPF|place=Rio de Janeiro|pages=24|isbn=85-85752-18-1|translator=Carlos Alberto Ardoy}}
References
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External links
- [http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4727226Z3 Curriculum Lattes]
- {{Cite web|url=https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/henrique-lins-de-barros/|title=Henrique Lins de Barros: From the atom to the airplane|author=Neldson Marcolin|work=Revista Fapesp}}
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Category:Alberto Santos-Dumont
Category:Brazilian biographers
Category:Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Category:Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Category:Fluminense Federal University alumni
Category:Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
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Category:Brazilian film score composers
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