Manuel António Gomes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Portuguese physicist
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Place of Birth: Cendufe, Viana do Castelo District, Portugal
About Manuel António Gomes
- Manuel António Gomes (9 December 1868 – 21 December 1933) was a Portuguese Catholic priest, inventor and physicist.
- He was a very tall man, and was nicknamed Father Himalaya (in Portuguese: Padre Himalaya), a name he proudly used frequently.
- He was born at Santiago de Cendufe, Arcos de Valdevez in 1868 and died at Viana do Castelo in 1933. Father Himalaya was a pioneer in Portugal of solar energy and other uses of renewable energy.
- He was a vegetarian and was interested in naturopathy, particularly fitotherapy and hydrotherapy.
- He studied in Paris with Marcellin Berthelot and developed mathematical and astronomical theories to construct innovative ways of concentrating solar radiation in order to maximise useful energy production.
- Gomes is the creator of the pyreliophorus, a series of reflecting mirrors to concentrate sunlight towards a common point in order to melt materials. He lived in the United States and Argentina between 1927 and 1932.
- In Argentina he wrote a book about cosmology, his inventions and his innovative views on several areas of science.
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