Katia Krafft (née
Catherine Joséphine Conrad,
Mulhouse, 17 April 1942 – 3 June 1991) and her husband,
Maurice Krafft (
Guebwiller, 25 March 1946 – 3 June 1991), were
French volcanologists who died in a
pyroclastic flow on
Mount Unzen, in
Japan, on June 3, 1991. The Kraffts were known for being pioneers in filming, photographing and recording volcanoes, often getting within feet of
lava flows. Their obituary appeared in the
Bulletin of Volcanology (vol. 54, pp. 613–614).