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]

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  1. ^ Kerr, Paul F. (1945). "Cattierite and Vaesite: New Co-Ni Minerals from the Belgian Kongo" (PDF). American Mineralogist. 30 (7–8): 483–492. ISSN 1945-3027. S2CID 51786115.
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