Piccard
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Notable people with this name
Members of the Swiss-American Piccard family:- Auguste PiccardAuguste PiccardAuguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer.-Biography:Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland...
(1884-1962), physicist, balloonist, hydronaut - Bertrand PiccardBertrand PiccardBertrand Piccard is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist.Born in Lausanne, Vaud canton, Bertrand Piccard, along with Brian Jones, was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe...
(born 1958), psychiatrist, balloonist - Jacques PiccardJacques PiccardJacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He was one of only two people, along with Lt...
(1922-2008), hydronaut - Jean PiccardJean PiccardJean Felix Piccard , also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon...
(1884-1963), organic chemist, balloonist - Jeannette PiccardJeannette PiccardJeannette Ridlon Piccard was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest. She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space.Jeannette was the first licensed...
(1895–1981), balloonist, teacher, scientist, priest - Don PiccardDon PiccardDonald Louis Piccard is an American balloonist.The son of Jean Felix Piccard and Jeannette Piccard, Don Piccard first flew in a balloon in 1933, when he was enlisted as "crew" by his mother, the first woman to fly to the edge of space. He served as a balloon and airship rigger in the U. S...
(born 1926), balloonist
Other notable Piccards:
- Franck PiccardFranck PiccardFranck Piccard is a French former Alpine skier.A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine skiing World Cup races....
(born 1965), French Alpine skier
See also
- Picard (disambiguation)
- Picard (name)Picard (name)Picard is a surname meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.-People with the surname Picard:* Alexandre R...
- PickardPickardPickard is a surname, an Anglicised version of Picard, originally meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.-People with the surname Pickard:...
, surname - PiccardoPiccardoPiccardo is an Italian surname, a version of Picard, meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France. It is found primarily in Liguria, in Tuscany and Campania .- Piccardo family :...
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