Albert Tarantola, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Tarantola

Spanish physicist

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1949

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 06-Dec-2009

Profession: physicist, geologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Albert Tarantola was a Spanish-born physicist (Barcelona, June 15, 1949 – December 6, 2009), of the University of Paris and the Institut de Physique du Globe (IPGP), and author of the book Probabilistic Formulation of Inverse Problems (Tarantola, 1987, 2005).
Tarantola was the leader of the Geophysical Tomography Group, that during the years 1985—2000 developed methods for the interpretation of seismic waveform data.
Apart from doing scientific research, Tarantola taught both at IPGP and at other universities.