What is Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes?
[[File:Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes.jpg|thumb|Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes]] '''Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes''' (5 October 1950 &ndash; 9 July 2014) was a [[Brazil]]ian [[geology|geologist]], [[Mineralogy|mineralogist]] and [[mineral]] dealer. He collected the material which was used in the discovery of the mineral [[menezesite]], which was named in his honor. He was born in [[São Paulo]]. Menezes died on 9 July 2014 in São Paulo, aged 63.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mmgerdau.org.br/index.php?p=9&pa=ini&n=624|title=MM Gerdau presta homenagem a Luiz Menezes|publisher=[[Museu das Minas e do Metal]]|date=7 July 2014|accessdate=14 July 2014|language=Portuguese|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190433/http://www.mmgerdau.org.br/index.php?p=9&pa=ini&n=624|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{Official|http://luizmenezes.com.br/quem-somos/}} <small>{{in lang|pt}}</small> {{Bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Menezes, Luiz Alberto Dias}} [[Category:1950 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Scientists from São Paulo]] [[Category:Mineralogists]]