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Auguste Piccard

1884 - 1962

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Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 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 and became the first person to enter the Stratosphere. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Piccard has received more than 957,730 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Auguste Piccard is the 142nd most popular physicist (down from 117th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 39th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Physicist.

Auguste Piccard was a Swiss physicist and inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the bathyscaphe, a deep-sea submersible vessel.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Auguste Piccard ranks 142 out of 851. Before him are William Henry Bragg, Peter Grünberg, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Rudolf Mössbauer, George Paget Thomson, and Donald A. Glaser. After him are Kip Thorne, Jacques Charles, Georges Charpak, Pavel Cherenkov, Hannes Alfvén, and Simon van der Meer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Auguste Piccard ranks 24. Before him are Gaston Bachelard, Hermann Rorschach, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Theodor Svedberg. After him are Vincent Auriol, Walther von Reichenau, Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Jannings, Rajendra Prasad, and Edward Sapir. Among people deceased in 1962, Auguste Piccard ranks 14. Before him are Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Yves Klein, Gaston Bachelard, and Hans Luther. After him are Arthur Compton, Vasily Stalin, René Coty, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Fritz Kreisler, and Gabriele Münter.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Auguste Piccard ranks 48 out of 1,015. Before him are Angelica Kauffman (1741), Felix Bloch (1905), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), and Benjamin Constant (1767). After him are Johannes Itten (1888), Robert Walser (1878), Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Henry Fuseli (1741), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Auguste Piccard ranks 5. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), K. Alex Müller (1927), and Felix Bloch (1905). After him are Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849).

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