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
Bertrand Piccard on the Green Carpet at the 2025 Zurich Film Festival.
Bertrand Piccard in 1982
Breitling Orbiter 3
Solar Impulse
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
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…UN Environment Programme. He is the founder and chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation. Piccard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His grandfather Auguste Piccard was a balloonist and undersea explorer, and his father Jacques Piccard was an undersea explorer. As a child, Piccard was taken to the launch of several…
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