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Key facts
- Born
- Auguste Antoine Piccard , ( 1884-01-28 ) 28 January 1884, Basel , Switzerland
- Died
- 24 March 1962 (1962-03-24) (aged 78), Lausanne , Switzerland
- Known for
- Bathyscaphe , Magnetocaloric effect
- Children
- Jacques Piccard (son)
- Relatives
- Jean Piccard (brother) Bertrand Piccard (grandson) Don Piccard (nephew)
- Alma mater
- ETH Zurich
- Fields
- physics , inventor , explorer
- Institutions
- Free University of Brussels (now Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel )
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Basel
- Place of death
- Chexbres
- Child
- Jacques Piccard
- Sibling
- Jean Piccard
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Basel
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- oceanography
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13738, Auguste Piccard.jpg
- Work location
- Zurich
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- Commons category
- Auguste Piccard
- date of birth
- 1884-01-28
- date of death
- 1962-03-24
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- Auguste Piccard
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Auguste Antoine Piccard
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Lutry
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Encyclopedic overview
Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the upper atmosphere. Piccard testified in a 1931 science magazine, "The earth appeared to be a flat disk with an upturned edge." Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
Piccard's twin brother Jean Felix Piccard is also a notable figure in the annals of science and exploration, as are a number of their relatives, including Jacques Piccard, Bertrand Piccard, Jeannette Piccard and Don Piccard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Auguste Piccard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.