Balloonist Dies
(NiPj».-Reet«r—Copyriphf) NEW YORK, January 28. Dr. Jean Felix Piccard, explorer of the stratosphere, died in Minneapolis today on his sevwttz-amth birthday. He was world famous flor bis research into cosmic rays, from stratospheric
His first flight in a balloon was in 1913 with his twin brother Auguste, also a scientist, who died in Switzerland last March.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 5
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