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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Étienne Charcot
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Charcot in 1925
Born 15 July 1867 (1867-07-15)
Died 16 September 1936 (1936-09-17) (aged 69)
at sea, off Iceland
Nationality French
Occupation Polar explorer, doctor
Spouse(s) Jeanne Hugo (1896–1905; div.)
Sailing career
Class(es) 0 to 0.5 ton
Open class
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Silver 1900 Paris Ton class 1st race
Silver 1900 Paris Ton class 2nd race
Updated on 2014-02-08.

Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893).

Life

Vague Bleue ou Pourquoi pas hommage au commandant Charcot, 2016 (80 x 120 cm, Acrylique crayon)
Vague Bleue ou Pourquoi pas. Hommage au commandant Charcot, by the french painter Arnaud Courlet de Vregille, 2016 (80 x 120 cm, Acrylic and pencil).

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, Jean-Martin Charcot. He named Hugo Island after Victor Hugo, the grandfather of his wife, Jeanne Hugo.

Later on, Jean-Baptiste Charcot explored Rockall in 1921 and Eastern Greenland and Svalbard from 1925 until 1936. He died when Pourquoi-Pas ? was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Iceland in 1936. A monument to Charcot was created in Reykjavík, Iceland by sculptor Einar Jónsson in 1936 and another by Ríkarður Jónsson in 1952. The lichen genus Charcotiana was named in his honour in 2014.

Charcot participated in many sports. He won two silver medals in sailing at the Summer Olympics of 1900.

See also

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