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Frank Perret
Volcanologist
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Frank Alvord Perret was an American inventor and volcanologist, born in 1867 in Hartford, Connecticut, and died in 1943 in New York City. He is particularly known for his studies of eruptions at Vesuvius, Kilauea and Mount Pelee, documenting the 1906 Vesuvius eruption with photographs and observations published as a monograph in 1924. His 1909 suggestion of continuous monitoring at Kilauea led to the founding of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, and during Mount Pelee's 1929 to 1932 activity he established the first permanent volcano observation station there in 1931.
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