Rui Ribeiro Franco, Brazilian petrologist and mineralogist (São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo State 09 June 1916 – São Paulo 20 February 2008)

Authored about 50 papers and 4 books

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With W. Loewenstein. Zirconium from the region of Poços de Caldas. Am. Mineral. 33:142-51, 1948

Beryl at Altinho, Pernambuco. Mineria y Metalurgia 9:201-2, 1949

With J.F. Schairer. Liquidus temperatures in mixtures of the feldspars of soda, potash and lime. J. Geol. 59:259-67, 1951

HONORS

Ruifrancoite Atencio, Chukanov, Coutinho, Menezes Filho, Dubinchuk & Mockel 2007 (Mineral)