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a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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Born
Auguste Antoine Piccard 28 January 1884 Basel, Switzerland
Died
24 March 1962 (aged 78) Lausanne, Switzerland
Nationality
Swiss
Known for
Bathyscaphe Magnetocaloric effect
Fields
physics, inventor, explorer
Alma mater
ETH Zurich
Institutions
Free University of Brussels (now Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel )
adultbasic
Switzerland
Children
Jacques Piccard (son)
era
1800+
Relatives
Jean Piccard (brother) Bertrand Piccard (grandson) Don Piccard (nephew)