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Piccard, Auguste (1884–1962) and Jean Félix (1884–1963)


Jean and Auguste Piccard
Jean (left) and Auguste Piccard
Swiss twin brothers, August, a physicist, and Jean, a chemist. Both made famous high-altitude balloon ascents in order to study cosmic rays with a minimum of atmospheric interference, Auguste in 1931 and 1932, and Jean in 1936. In 1948 Auguste successfully conducted an unpiloted trial dive of the bathyscaphe, a deep-sea diving device built to his own design; the first piloted dive – in a new bathyscaphe – took place in 1953.


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