Marie Louise Lindberg (also published as Marie Lindberg Smith; 1918–2005) was a mineralogist. She was affiliated with the

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and noted for her studies of mineralogy in

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. Multiple species of mineral were first described by her, including frondelite, faheyite, moraesite, barbosalite, and tavorite. These 5 minerals were all described by her and various collaborators in the 1940s and 1950s, and sourced from a quarry in Galileia,

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. As of March 1950, Lindberg held both

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and

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degrees. Lindberg joined the Geological Survey in 1943, and received training from Joe Fahey. In 1953, she and K. J. Murata described a new mineral; they named it '' faheyite'' in honor of Fahey. In 2004, the mineral '' lindbergite'' was described by Daniel Atencio and named in honor of Lindberg. Notable work outside of Brazil includes paleontology research, including a paper with Wilbert H. Hass on the composition of conodonts (1946); and the discovery of a brazilianite deposit in

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(1947). She also published multiple book reviews in the journal ''Science'' during the 1960s.

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1918 births 2005 deaths Date of birth missing Nationality missing Women mineralogists Women paleontologists United States Geological Survey personnel 20th-century geologists 20th-century women scientists {{Paleontologist-stub