biography
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Piccard, Auguste (Antoine)
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pronunciation:
[peekah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1962)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Basel, N Switzerland, the twin brother of Jean Piccard. He studied at Zürich, and became professor of applied physics at Brussels (1922), and held posts at Lausanne, Chicago, and Minnesota universities. In 1932 he ascended in a balloon 16 940 m/55 563 ft into the stratosphere, and in 1948 explored the ocean depths off West Africa in a bathyscaphe of his own design. His son Jacques (Ernest Jean) Piccard (1922– ) was a member of the team which established a world record by diving 10 900 m/35 800 ft in the US bathyscaphe Trieste into the Marianas Trench of the Pacific Ocean (1960). |
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