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Auguste Piccard, Swiss Physicist and Inventor

Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths. Photograph by Johannes Meiner, circa 1910.
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Auguste Piccard, Swiss Physicist and Inventor
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Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths. Photograph by Johannes Meiner, circa 1910.
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