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Jean-Felix Piccard
American chemical engineer
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Léon Teisserenc de Bort
French meteorologist

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