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Auguste Piccard - Wikipedia

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Auguste Piccard - Wikipedia
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Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 - 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere.
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