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Jean Felix Piccard (January 28, 1884 in Basel, Switzerland – January 28, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ), 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.
24 de jul. de 2020 · But Jean-Félix Picard, who was both a priest and an astronomer, became the first person — lay or clergy — to give humankind an accurate idea of our planet’s size. He was born 400 years ago ...
Jean-Felix Piccard (born Jan. 28, 1884, Basel—died Jan. 28, 1963, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.) was a Swiss-born American chemical engineer and balloonist who conducted stratospheric flights for the purpose of cosmic-ray research. The twin brother of Auguste Piccard, he graduated (1907) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a degree ...
Jean Felix led a research team on the first flight of the Century of Progress, conducting investigations of cosmic rays. On October 23, 1934, he and his wife Jeanette made the second ascent in the Century of Progress from Dearborn, Michigan, reaching an altitude of 57,979 feet. During that flight, they carried out further cosmic ray research ...
Jean Picard (born July 21, 1620, La Flèche, Fr.—died July 12, 1682, Paris) was a French astronomer who first accurately measured the length of a degree of a meridian ( longitude line) and from that computed the size of the Earth. Picard became professor of astronomy at the Collège de France, Paris, in 1655. His measurement of the Earth was ...
Jean Felix Piccard ( Basilea, 28 gennaio 1884 – Minneapolis, 28 gennaio 1963) è stato un chimico, ingegnere ed esploratore svizzero . Fratello gemello dello scienziato svizzero Auguste Piccard e zio di Jacques Piccard. Nel 1931 acquista la cittadinanza statunitense . Fu un importante esploratore e si interessò alle ascensioni stratosferiche ...
Jean-Felix Picard (La Flèche, 21 luglio 1620 – Parigi, 12 luglio 1682) è stato un abate e astronomo francese Biografia. Astronomo ...
