# Auguste Piccard

> Auguste Piccard went higher and deeper than anyone before him — first into the stratosphere in a hydrogen balloon, then to the ocean floor in a steel sphere of his own design. He crossed both edges of the livable world.

*Swiss physicist (1884–1962)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/auguste-piccard

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Switzerland
- **Born:** 1884-01-28
- **Died:** 1962-03-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born 28 January 1884, Piccard was a Swiss physicist who turned his attention to the limits of human reach. In 1931 he piloted a record-breaking hydrogen balloon into the upper atmosphere, becoming the first person to enter that realm and study it directly. He described what he saw — the Earth appearing as a flat disk with an upturned edge — in a science magazine that year. Nearly two decades later he reversed direction entirely, inventing the bathyscaphe FNRS-2 and sending it unmanned into the ocean's depths in 1948. His twin brother Jean Felix followed a parallel path in exploration, and the family's reach extended across generations: his son Jacques, nephew Bertrand, sister-in-law Jeannette, and son Don all carried the name into new frontiers. Piccard died 24 March 1962, having bracketed the world top and bottom.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.9 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 23.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #234

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Physics, #Chemistry, #Switzerland, #Europe, #20th Century

## Sources
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