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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Category:French Antarctic scientists
Category:Scientists from Paris