gidneyandcloyd t1_istozx6 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 5:01 PM Reply to comment by Rosthouse in TIL that Swiss Balloonist, Auguste Piccard, was the inspiration for both Professor Calculus, in the Tintin comics, and that Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek after him. by es_price The family name is Piccard, not Picard. Nice article about them in the October 10, 2022 The New Yorker. Permalink Parent 1
gidneyandcloyd t1_istozx6 wrote
Reply to comment by Rosthouse in TIL that Swiss Balloonist, Auguste Piccard, was the inspiration for both Professor Calculus, in the Tintin comics, and that Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek after him. by es_price
The family name is Piccard, not Picard. Nice article about them in the October 10, 2022 The New Yorker.