Piccard, Jacques
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Name (Hebrew)
פיקאר, ז'אק
Name (Latin)
Piccard, Jacques
Date of birth
1922-07-28
Date of death
2008-11-01
Field of activity
Science
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Seven miles down, 1961:t.p. (Jacques Piccard)
- LC in RLIN, 5-1-95(hdg.: Piccard, Jacques)
- New York times WWW site, Nov. 3, 2008(in obituary published Nov. 1: Jacques Piccard; b. 1922, Brussels; d. Saturday [Nov. 1, 2008], aged 86; scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man)
- Independent online ed., Nov. 5, 2008(Jacques Piccard; b. July 28, 1922, Brussels; d. Nov. 1, 2008, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland)
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Jacques Piccard (1979)
Koen Suyk / Anefo, CC0
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Wikipedia description:
Jacques Piccard (28 July 1922 – 1 November 2008) was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. In the Challenger Deep, he and Lieutenant Don Walsh of the United States Navy were the first people to explore the deepest known part of the world's ocean, and the deepest known location on the surface of Earth's crust, the Mariana Trench, located in the western North Pacific Ocean.
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