Nationality French Known for Alt Glacier Died July 22, 1991 | Name Jean Alt Children 4 | |
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Occupation Scientist, Meteorologist, Polar explorer | ||
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
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