Jean Felix Piccard papers 1932-1952 (bulk 1935-1942)

Piccard, Auguste, 1884-1962

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Piccard, Jeannette, 1895-1981

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University of Minnesota. Department of Aeronautical Engineering

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Masson, Louis Talwin, 1897

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Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (U.S.)

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University of Minnesota High School

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Hill, Edward J.

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Piccard, Jean-Félix 1884-1963

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Jean Felix Piccard was born January 28, 1884 in Basel, Switzerland, educated at Basel and at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich where he received his doctorate in 1909. He moved to the United States in 1916 and taught first at the University of Chicago, and then (in 1936) at the University of Minnesota, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, where he remained until he retired in 1952. He was a pioneering stratosphere balloonist and cosmic ray research scientist. From the descrip...