Haraldur Sigurdsson (1939- ) is an Icelandic volcanologist and a professor at the University of Rhode Island. He was leader of a research team that recently studied the evidence left by the volcanic eruption on Santorini (ancient Thera) in the 2nd millennium BC. He appeared on the 2010 BBC Timewatch Special, Atlantis: The Evidence in which he supported the idea that the Theran eruption had probably inspired Plato’s Atlantis story and also saw traces of the event in Hesiod’s Theogony(a).
(a) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060823-thera-volcano.html
