Alphabetical Index Index by Birth Year
Auguste Picard
* 1884 in Basel
+ 1962 in Lausanne
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Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer,
known for his record-breaking helium-filled balloon flights,
with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays,
and 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.
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