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Jean-Felix Piccard

American chemical engineer

Auguste Piccard, 1961

Auguste Piccard

Swiss-Belgian physicist

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Léon Teisserenc de Bort

French meteorologist

ten types of clouds and their elevation: cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus

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