Jean Piccard
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Jean Felix Piccard, also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jea
Piccard in 1933
Jean Piccard (left) with his brother Auguste (right) during World War I
Jacques Piccard
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Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed submarines for studying ocean currents. In the Challenger Deep, on 23 January 1960 he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the
Jean Piccard
…January 28, 1963 (his 79th birthday) in Minneapolis. Jules Piccard (professor of chemistry) Auguste Piccard (physicist, aeronaut, balloonist, hydronaut) Jacques Piccard (hydronaut) Bertrand Piccard (aeronaut, balloonist) Jean Felix Piccard (organic chemist, aeronaut, and balloonist) Jeannette Piccard (wife of Jean…
Piccard in 1979
Don Walsh (left) and Jacques Piccard (centre) in the Bathyscaphe Trieste
Jacques Piccard; in the foreground a model of the mesoscaphe Ben Franklin