What stratosphere pioneer studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays?
Piccard Cove:  Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, stratosphere pioneer who reached a height of 9.5 nautical miles (18 km) in a hydrogen-filled balloon in 1931. Auguste Piccard: Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, "FNRS-2", with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.
Auguste Piccard