Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...

, was a French scientist,

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and

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. His father was the neurologist

Jean-Martin Charcot Jean-Martin Charcot (; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurology, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. Charcot ...

(1825–1893).

Life

Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship ''Français'' exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904 until 1907. The expedition reached Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer Archipelago and Loubet Coast. From 1908 until 1910, another expedition followed with the ship '' Pourquoi Pas ?'', exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay, Mount Boland and Charcot Island, which was named after his father,

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Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

, the grandfather of his wife, Jeanne Hugo. Later on, Jean-Baptiste Charcot explored Rockall in 1921 and Eastern Greenland and

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from 1925 until 1936. He died when ''Pourquoi-Pas ?'' was wrecked in a storm off the coast of

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in 1936. A monument to Charcot was created in

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, Iceland by sculptor Einar Jónsson in 1936 and another by Ríkarður Jónsson in 1952. Charcot participated in many sports. He won two silver medals in sailing at the Summer Olympics of 1900.

References

* ''Le "Pourquoi pas?" dans l'Antarctique 1908–1910'', Arthaud, Paris, 1996,

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*
Sur les traces du "Pourquoi-Pas?"

Icelandic website in memory of Jean-Babtiste Charcot"
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Life

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