Auguste Piccard
28 January 1884 — 24 March 1962
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere. 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.
Un memorial en Digital Cemetery, un mapa infinito que puedes explorar. Esta tumba está en las coordenadas 47, 36.
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