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

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. He took part in the American mission Deep Freeze III in

Little America V Little America was a series of Antarctic exploration bases from 1929 to 1958, located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales. The coordinates are approximate. Little America I The first base in the series was established in January 1 ...

(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 Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on May 3, 1952 (with Joseph ...

Later the

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gave his name to a glacier: the Alt Glacier

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alt, Jean 1921 births 1991 deaths French Antarctic scientists Scientists from Paris French meteorologists Météo-France staff