# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/auguste-piccard
# Generated: 2026-09-01T17:56:48.676Z

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description: "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."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.