Johannes Franciscus Vaes (1902 – 1978) was a Belgian mineralogist and geologist associated with the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, in Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Vaes discovered the mineral Vaesite, which was named after him in 1945 by Paul F. Kerr.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Kerr, Paul F. (1945). "Cattierite and Vaesite: New Co-Ni Minerals from the Belgian Kongo" (PDF). 30: 483–492. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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