# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-piccard
# Generated: 2026-09-01T17:02:26.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacques-piccard"
name: "Jacques Piccard"
slug: "jacques-piccard"
description: "Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed 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."
tagline: "Swiss oceanographer (1922–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacques_Piccard_(1979).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-07-28"
deathDate: "2008-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.12
  momentum:             14.41123531464464
  historical:           21.49052533333334
  currentAttention:     3.928571428571429
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  170
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump