1. Haroun Tazieff was a Franco-Belgian volcanologist and geologist.
13 Facts About Haroun Tazieff
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Haroun Tazieff was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes.
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Haroun Tazieff was a government adviser and French cabinet minister.
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Haroun Tazieff served in the Belgian resistance during World War II.
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Haroun Tazieff's father, Sabir, was a Muslim medical doctor of Tatar descent, and his mother, Zenita Iliyasovna Klupta, was a Polish Jewish chemist and doctor of natural science and holder of a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Haroun Tazieff's father was conscripted into the Russian Army and died during the First World War, a fact that did not reach the family until 1919.
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In 1917 Haroun Tazieff emigrated to Brussels with his widowed mother.
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Haroun Tazieff received a degree in agronomy in Gembloux in 1938, and another degree in geology at the University of Liege in 1944.
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Haroun Tazieff participated in the first detailed exploration of the "Saint-Martin" La Verna cave system in the French Pyrenees.
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Haroun Tazieff became famous in France after publishing a book entitled, "Le Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin" in 1952.
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Haroun Tazieff directed the documentary movie Le volcan interdit about the Nyiragongo Mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which he was the first to climb in 1948.
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Haroun Tazieff was a secretary of state in France in the 1980s, in charge of protection against major threats.
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Haroun Tazieff died in 1998 and was buried in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.