Auguste Piccard

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Auguste Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor, and explorer renowned for his pioneering high-altitude balloon flights and deep-sea submersible designs that advanced scientific exploration of extreme environments.


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instanceOf aeronaut
balloonist
explorer
human
inventor
oceanographer
physicist
birthCountry Switzerland
birthDate 1884-01-28
birthPlace Basel NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath natural causes
child Jacques Piccard
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland
dateOfEvent 1931-05-27
deathDate 1962-03-24
educatedAt ETH Zurich
employer ETH Zurich
Université libre de Bruxelles
familyName Piccard
fieldOfWork aeronautics
oceanography
physics
givenName Auguste
inspiredCharacter Professor Cuthbert Calculus
inspiredWork The Adventures of Tintin
knownFor design of bathyscaphe
design of pressurized gondola
high-altitude balloon flights
stratospheric exploration
languageOfWorkOrName French
German
memberOf Swiss Academy of Sciences
name Auguste Piccard
nationality Swiss
notableWork FNRS-1 bathyscaphe
FNRS-2 bathyscaphe
Trieste bathyscaphe design
occupation explorer
inventor
physicist
university professor
performedFirst manned flight into the stratosphere with a pressurized cabin
placeOfDeath Lausanne
placeOfEvent Augsburg
reachedAltitude 15781 meters
residence Brussels
Lausanne
sibling Jean Piccard
spouse Marie-Therese Piccard

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Auguste Piccard ("Piccard")
Jacques Piccard ("Piccard")
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Jacques Piccard ("Bertrand Piccard")
child
bathyscaphe Trieste
designer
Jacques Piccard
father
Bertrand ("Bertrand Piccard")
hasNotableBearer
Jacques Piccard ("Piccard family of scientists and explorers")
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Auguste Piccard
name

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