Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Haroun Tazieff (May 11, 1914-February 6, 1998) was a French vulcanologist and geologist. He studied in Russia, France and Belgium, and graduated as agronomist in 1938 and as geologist in 1944. He had been a "secretaire d'Etat" in France, in charge of prevention of major risks. He was born in Warsaw and and is buried in the cemetery of Passy in Paris. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.