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Also Known As Jacques-Ernest-Jean Piccard
Born July 28, 1922 • Brussels • Belgium
Died November 1, 2008 (aged 86) • Switzerland
Inventions mesoscaphe
Notable Family Members father Auguste Piccard

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Auguste Piccard (seated) and his son Jacques aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste after a descent, at Castellammare di Stabia on the Bay of Naples, Italy, 1953.
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Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
Nils Gustaf Dalén.
Nils Dalén
Swedish physicist
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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
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer

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