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Jacques Piccard

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Name: Jacques Piccard
Birth Date: July 28, 1922
Place of Birth: Brussels, Belgium
Nationality: Swiss
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer, scientist, engineer

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Biography of Jacques Piccard
1,351 words, approx. 5 pages
One of a remarkable family of record-setting explorer/scientists, Jacques Piccard (born 1922) is one of the fathers of marine exploration and a pioneer of ocean engineering. Explorer Jacques Piccard comes from a family known for their daring...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jacques Ernest-Jean Piccard Summary
574 words, approx. 2 pages
1922- Swiss Oceanic Engineer and Physicist Jacques Piccard, born on July 28,1922, is an oceanic engineer and physicist who assisted his father, Auguste Piccard, in building the bathyscaph for deep-sea exploration. This submarine-like vessel allowed...
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Piccard, Jacques Ernest-Jean (1922- ) Summary
494 words, approx. 2 pages
Swiss oceanic engineer, physicist, and economist Jacques Piccard is a Swiss oceanic engineer best noted for making the deepest ocean dive (with Lt. Don Walsh) in the bathyscaph Trieste, a submersible vessel he helped build with his father, Auguste...
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Jacques Piccard Information
784 words, approx. 3 pages
Jacques Piccard (born July 28, 1922) is a Swiss explorer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He is the only person (as of 2006), along with Lt. Don Walsh, to have reached the deepest point on the...


News and Journals
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Balloonist Piccard comes from long line of record-setting pioneers
03/21/1999: 552 words, approx. 2 pages
Doing things nobody has ever done before comes naturally to the Piccard family. Balloonist Bertrand Piccard on Saturday became the first to go around the world non-stop in a balloon, following an adventuring tradition that began in 1931 when his physicist grandfather Auguste...
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The Boston Globe
Piccard Takes Super-g At Vail
03/14/1988: 542 words, approx. 2 pages
VAIL, Colo. - The surprise of surprises in yesterday's closing of the American Ski Classic was that the powerful Swiss team, for once, failed to finish in the medals. Instead, on the long, cranky super-G course, it was the French racer, Franck Piccard...
 


 

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