Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian geologist
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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
- Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (February 18, 1916 – August 2, 2013) was a Brazilian geologist considered to be one of the top Brazilians concerned with the study.
- Almeida did the central works to understand the South American geology.
- He is the son of the first Brazilian generation of geologists who did the pioneering papers of the continent's geology.
- Marques de Almeida is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1916, his parents were the lawyer Gerson de Almeida and Nair Marques de Almeida.
- He did his primary and secondary studies at the Gymnasium of São Bento in São Paulo state in which he spent most of his life.
- Finished junior high school did tender for the Polytechnic School of São Paulo, where he graduated in Civil Engineering in 1938.
- Had much influence on his future career Professor Dr.
- Luiz Flores de Moraes Rego, Professor of Mineralogy, Petrography and geology of this school.
- To finish the school year in which he attended a Chair, Professor Moraes Rego invited him to join as a student-assistant at the Institute for Technological Research.
- When graduating from became Assistant Professor Moraes Rego, prematurely deceased. Remained at the Polytechnic School for 35 years, having made tender for Free-Teaching in 1957, with a thesis on the Geology and Petrology of the Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, the Chair ruled when the professor Dr.
- Octavio Barbosa.
- With this dismissal, took the chair, which made for tender in 1962, with a thesis on the Trindade Island.
- Until 1969 been in part-time, which allowed him to join the National Department of Mineral Production for the contest in which he made 1956, having been dismissed in 1969 to take a full-time integral to teaching and research (RDIDP).
- He retired in 1994.
- In 1974 he was hired by the Institute of Geosciences, University of São Paulo, under RDIDP.
- In 1978 he left the University and joined the Technological Research Institute of São Paulo, from where ends walking away.
- He graduated from this institute between 1985 and 1990, which appointed by the Institute of Geosciences, State University of Campinas.
- During such a long life traveled almost all over the country, having published 176 scientific papers and book chapters in Brazil and abroad, dealing with various topics of Geosciences.
- It was one of the founders of the Brazilian Society of Geology and the first chief editor of the Journal of Geology.
- Held various positions scientific-technical and administrative and participated numerous conferences and other scientific national and international meetings . Among the awards received are: Biography in Who's Who in the World of Marquis Who's Who Inc., Chicago (1971-1972), Vice-President of Géologique Société de France (1971); Medal Jose Bonifacio - Society Brazilian Geology (1964), Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit Scientific - President of the Republic of Brazil (1995), Doctor Honoris Causa State University of Campinas (1991), Medal of Merit Council Federal Engineering and Architecture (1995).
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