Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida

Who was Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida?

Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida 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.