INVENTOR

Jacques Piccard

1922 - 2008

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Jacques Piccard (28 July 1922 – 1 November 2008) was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Piccard has received more than 933,823 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Jacques Piccard is the 68th most popular inventor (up from 72nd in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 87th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Inventor.

Jacques Piccard is most famous for his deep-sea exploration in the bathyscaphe Trieste.

Memorability Metrics

  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Jacques Piccard ranks 68 out of 426. Before him are Alberto Santos-Dumont, Isaac Singer, Cornelis Drebbel, John Browning, Étienne Lenoir, and John Deere. After him are Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Oleg Antonov, Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, George Eastman, and Claude Chappe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jacques Piccard ranks 41. Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt, Iannis Xenakis, Nándor Hidegkuti, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Nikolay Basov, and Doris Day. After him are Agostinho Neto, Nils Liedholm, Julius Nyerere, Arthur Ashkin, Jason Robards, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Among people deceased in 2008, Jacques Piccard ranks 26. Before him are Harold Pinter, George Habash, Jørn Utzon, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Yma Sumac, and Michael Crichton. After him are Roy Scheider, Jules Dassin, Heath Ledger, Jörg Haider, George Emil Palade, and John Archibald Wheeler.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Piccard ranks 88 out of 1,190. Before him are Ernest Solvay (1838), Paul-Henri Spaak (1899), Jacky Ickx (1945), Étienne Lenoir (1822), Ferdinand Verbiest (1623), and Matilda of Flanders (1031). After him are Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (1350), Hubert van Eyck (1366), Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (1240), Auguste Beernaert (1829), Jean-Marie Pfaff (1953), and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927).

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Among INVENTORS In Belgium

Among inventors born in Belgium, Jacques Piccard ranks 3. Before him are Adolphe Sax (1814), and Étienne Lenoir (1822). After him are Zénobe Gramme (1826), Paul Otlet (1868), Robert Cailliau (1947), and George Washington (1871).

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