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.
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External links
Mindat.org – Vaesite Webmineral.com – Vaesite Handbook of Mineralogy – Vaesite