InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Haroun Tazieff
Born: 11 May 1914 in WarszawaDied: February 1998 in Paris
He was a French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous maker of films about volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books about volcanoes.
His father was a Tatar. When his father died in 1917, his mother took him to Brussels, Belgium. He received a degree in agronomy in 1938, and a degree in geology in 1944. He was later a "secrétaire d'État" in France, in charge of prevention of major risks.
The National Geographic film "The Violent Earth" followed Tazieff's expeditions to the volcanoes Mount Etna, Sicily in 1971 and Mount Nyiragongo, Democratic Republic of Congo (then known as Zaire ) in 1972. In this expeditions he attempted, unsuccessfully, to descend into the active lava lake in order to collect samples (which he had achieved on a previous expedition in 1959).
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Polonica stamps
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Congo, Dem. Rep. 2006, I France 2000, 16 IX Guinea, Rep. 2010, 25 X |
Guinea-Bissau 2008, Korea, North 1980, 18 II Mozambique 2002, 28 IX |
S.Tomé e Príncipe 2008, 19 V S.Tomé e Príncipe 2009, 29 V |
