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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1884
- Died
- 1962
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Entre terre et ciel
- Über den Wolken, unter den Wellen
- In balloon and bathyscaphe
- Au fond des mers en bathyscaphe
- Über den Wolken, unter den Wellen
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- Listeners
- 44
- Total plays
- 114
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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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- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13738, Auguste Piccard.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1884-01-28
- date of death
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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.