Jacques Piccard

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engineer explorer human oceanographer

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the historic first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.

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Don Walsh 0 1

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf engineer →
explorer →
human →
oceanographer →
awardReceived Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany →
Légion d'honneur →
surface form: Legion of Honour
causeOfDeath heart failure →
child Auguste Piccard →
surface form: Bertrand Piccard
collaboratedWith United States Navy →
coPiloted bathyscaphe Trieste →
countryOfCitizenship Switzerland →
dateOfBirth 1922-07-28 →
dateOfDeath 2008-11-01 →
dateOfEvent 1960-01-23 →
depthReached about 10916 m →
educatedAt University of Geneva →
exploredLocation Challenger Deep →
Mariana Trench →
familyName Auguste Piccard →
surface form: Piccard
father Auguste Piccard →
fieldOfWork marine engineering →
oceanography →
gender male →
givenName Jacques →
heritage Auguste Piccard →
surface form: Piccard family of scientists and explorers
knownFor bathyscaphe Trieste →
deep-sea exploration →
first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench →
languageSpoken French →
name Jacques Piccard self-link →
nationality Swiss →
notableWork bathyscaphe Trieste →
surface form: Trieste deep-sea dives
occupation engineer →
inventor →
oceanographer →
participatedIn first crewed descent to Challenger Deep →
placeOfBirth Belgium →
Brussels, Belgium →
surface form: Brussels
placeOfDeath Lausanne →
Switzerland →
residence Switzerland →
vehicleUsed Trieste, Italy →
surface form: Trieste
workedOn design and development of bathyscaphes →

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

bathyscaphe Trieste → carried → Jacques Piccard →
Auguste Piccard → child → Jacques Piccard →
bathyscaphe Trieste → coDesigner → Jacques Piccard →
bathyscaphe Trieste → crewMember → Jacques Piccard →
Challenger Deep → firstCrewedDescentBy → Jacques Piccard →
Mariana Trench → firstMannedDescentBy → Jacques Piccard →
Mariana Trench → firstMannedDescentBy → Jacques Piccard →
this entity surface form: Don Walsh
Jacques Piccard → name → Jacques Piccard self-link →
Don Walsh → partnerInMission → Jacques Piccard →