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Born January 28, 1884 • Basel • Switzerland
Died March 24, 1962 (aged 78) • Lausanne • Switzerland
Inventions bathyscaphe
Subjects Of Study cosmic ray • stratosphere

Photos

Auguste Piccard, 1961
Piccard balloon
bathyscaphe Trieste
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Walther Bothe
German physicist
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Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanic engineer
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Jean-Felix Piccard
American chemical engineer
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
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Jack Kilby
American engineer
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Geiger counter
Hans Geiger
German physicist
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
Powell, Cecil Frank
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
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Césare Mansueto Giulio Lattes
Brazilian physicist
Nils Gustaf Dalén.
Nils Dalén
Swedish physicist
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Charles Green, detail of an engraving by Hilaire Le Dru, 1835
Charles Green
British balloonist
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Johann Georg Bodmer
Swiss inventor
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Charles Édouard Guillaume
French physicist
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Horace Bénédict de Saussure
Swiss physicist

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