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Auguste Piccard

1884 - 1962

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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 Stratosphere. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Piccard is the 192nd most popular physicist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 48th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Physicist.

Auguste Piccard was a Swiss physicist and inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the bathyscaphe, a deep-sea submersible vessel.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Auguste Piccard ranks 192 out of 851. Before him are Hans Geiger, Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, George Smoot, Ilya Frank, and Isidor Isaac Rabi. After him are Val Logsdon Fitch, George Francis FitzGerald, Igor Tamm, Hugh David Politzer, Horst Ludwig Störmer, and Bertram Brockhouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Auguste Piccard ranks 24. Before him are Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Theodor Svedberg, Franz Halder, Gaston Bachelard, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Hermann Rorschach. After him are Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, Emil Jannings, Rudolf Bultmann, and Gerald Gardner. Among people deceased in 1962, Auguste Piccard ranks 17. Before him are Arthur Compton, Georges Bataille, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Gaston Bachelard, Yves Klein, and Hans Luther. After him are René Coty, Gabriele Münter, Fritz Kreisler, Michael Curtiz, Vasily Stalin, and Natalia Goncharova.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Auguste Piccard ranks 60 out of 1,015. Before him are Ursula Andress (1936), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Richard R. Ernst (1933), Henry Fuseli (1741), and Hermann Rorschach (1884). After him are Michel Mayor (1942), Johannes Itten (1888), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Werner Arber (1929), Hans Küng (1928), and Ferdinand Hodler (1853).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Auguste Piccard ranks 6. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), K. Alex Müller (1927), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825). After him are Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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