Haroun Tazieff
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Haroun Tazieff (May 11, 1914 — February 6, 1998) was a French vulcanologist and geologist.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, his father was a Russian doctor, and Muslim, and his mother a Polish chemist and doctor in political sciences. After the death of his father early during World War I, Tazieff remained officially stateless until 1936 when he adopted Belgian nationality (living in Brussels from 1917). Over the years he studied in Belgium (Agronomy in Gembloux and geology at University of Liege), , and graduated as agronomist in 1938 and as geologist in 1944. He had been a "secrétaire d'Etat" in France, in charge of prevention of major risks.
He was a famous cinematographer of eruptions and lava flows.
After the circumstances surrounding the evacuation of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, that he had advised against, he was fired as the director of volcanology from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and started working for Laboratoire de Volcanologie, Centre de Faibles Radioactivities, Gif-sur-Yvette, France in 1977.
On his passing in 1998, Tazieff was interred in Cimetière de Passy in the Parisian quarter of Passy.
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