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Dr Bertrand Piccard is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist born in LausanneVaud, Vaud canton, on March 1, 1958. His grandfather Auguste Piccard was also a noted balloonist and inventor.On 1 March 1999 Piccard and Brian Jones set off in the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3 from Château d’Oex in Switzerland on the non-stop balloon circumnavigation. They landed in Egypt after a 45,755 kilometre flight lasting 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes.
In recognition of this accomplishment, he received the Harmon Trophy.
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