Jean Alt

{{Short description|French scientist (born 1921)}}

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| name=Jean ALT

| image=Jean ALT (cropped to square).jpg

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| birth_date= 8 August 1921

| birth_place=Paris, France

| death_date=22 July 1991

| death_place=Savigny-sur-Orge, France

| occupation=Scientist, Meteorologist, Polar explorer

| known_for = Alt Glacier

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| nationality=French

| children=4

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Jean Alt (8 August 1921 – 22 July 1991) was a French scientist and meteorologist. He was born in Paris.

International Geophysical Year (57-58)

Alt was a scientist of the IGY. He took part in the American mission Deep Freeze III in Little America V (an Antarctica base) during the winter of 1958. He stayed 16 months in Antarctica.

He was part of the little America V team in the same period that Albert P. Crary

Later the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names gave his name to a glacier: the Alt Glacier

Bibliography

  • {{cite book|first1=Jean |last=Alt|first2=P. |last2=Astapenko|first3=Nicholas J. |last3=Ropar|title=Some Aspects of the Antarctic Atmospheric Circulation in 1958|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=YoW-ygAACAAJ}}|year=1959|publisher=IGY World Data Center, National Academy of Sciences}}

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