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{{Short description|Swiss oceanographer and engineer (1922–2008)}}
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| name               = Jacques Piccard
| image              = Jacques Piccard (1979).jpg
| caption            = Piccard in 1979
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1922|7|28|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Brussels]], Belgium
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2008|11|1|1922|7|28|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Cully, Switzerland|Cully]], Switzerland
| nationality        = Swiss
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| father             = [[Auguste Piccard]]
| children           = [[Bertrand Piccard]] (son)
| relatives          = [[Jean Felix Piccard]] (uncle)
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 |prizes            = [[Hubbard Medal]] (2012)
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'''Jacques Piccard''' (28 July 1922{{spaced ndash}}1 November 2008)<ref>{{cite news | title=Deep sea adventurer Jacques Piccard is dead | date=1 November 2008 | url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Deep_sea_adventurer_Jacques_Piccard_is_dead.html?siteSect=104&sid=9917799&cKey=1225554764000&ty=nd | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526010836/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Deep_sea_adventurer_Jacques_Piccard_is_dead.html?siteSect=104&sid=9917799&cKey=1225554764000&ty=nd | url-status=dead | archive-date=26 May 2012 | work=Swedishinfo.ch | access-date=1 November 2008 }}</ref> was a Swiss [[oceanographer]] and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying [[ocean current]]s. In the [[Challenger Deep]], he and Lieutenant [[Don Walsh]] of the [[United States Navy]] were the first people to explore the deepest known part of the world's [[ocean]], and the deepest known location on the surface of Earth's crust, the [[Mariana Trench]], located in the western [[North Pacific Ocean]].