# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-piccard
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:48:02.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-piccard"
name: "Jean Piccard"
slug: "jean-piccard"
description: "Jean Felix Piccard, 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. Piccard's inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft and spacecraft."
tagline: "Chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist (1884-1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Jean_Piccard%2C_Bestanddeelnr_901-8367.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-01-28"
deathDate: "1963-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.107418666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piccard"
    title: "Jean Piccard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1_(%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "جان بيكار (طيار وكيميائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "جان بيكار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piccard"
    title: "Jean Piccard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piccard"
    title: "Jean Piccard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piccard"
    title: "Jean Piccard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96'%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8"
    title: "ז'אן פיקאר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Felix_Piccard"
    title: "Jean-Felix Piccard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piccard"
    title: "Jean Piccard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116553"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump