Auguste Piccard
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Auguste Antoine Piccard 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 per
Piccard in 1933
Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer, wearing improvised crash helmets, September 1930
The FNRS III at the Tour Royale in Toulon, France
Auguste Piccard in 1910
Bertrand Piccard
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Bertrand Piccard FRSGS is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breit
Auguste Piccard
…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. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix Piccard were born in Basel, Switzerland, on 28 January 1884…
Bertrand Piccard on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.
Bertrand Piccard in 1982
Breitling Orbiter 3
Solar Impulse