Haroun
Tazieff
biography
He was born on 11 May 1914 in Warsaw. Assistant in entomology at the Agronomical Institute in Gembloux between 1937 and 1938. At the end of the war he was assistant professor of mineralogy and then geology in Brussels. Between 1945 and 1949 he was a mining engineer and geologist in Katanga and the Belgian Congo. From 1960, he worked on volcanology at the Universities of Brussels, the Sorbonne and Orsay in Paris. In 1962, he founded the Institut International de Recherches Volcanologiques (IIRV) in Catania. He has held numerous national and international institutional positions (UNESCO expert, director of research at the CNRS, expert in the prevention of natural hazards and, in particular, volcanic hazards, etc.). Tazieff took part in dozens of volcanological missions around the world, made numerous films, published hundreds of essays and scientific treatises, as well as some popular books. He died on 5 February 1998.
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