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Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

Death of de Rozier and Romain.

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (born 30 March 1754 in Metz - died 15 June 1785 in Wimereux/Pas-de-Calais) was a French chemistry and physics teacher, and one of the first pioneers of aviation. --206.174.11.241 03:58, 26 April 2006 (UTC)'''[[ == [[<nowiki> The son of an innkeeper]] ==]]</nowiki>, he botanized in the company of the duc de la Rochefoucauld,iofhoadgdwo;esdka dnofi fd;neo;n foa dfjibgasfkIA KJF HN in the democratic companionship that early science fostered. His interests in the chemistry of drugs had been awakened in the military hospital of Metz, an important garrison town on the brother, Monsieur, the comte d'Artois, who put him in charge of his cabinet of natural history and made him a valet de chambre to Madame, which brought him his ennobled name, Pilâtre de Rozier. Soon however he opened his own museum in the Marais quarter of Paris, researched the new field of gases and invented a respirator.

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De Rozier died during an attempted crossing of the English Channel when his balloon, a combination hydrogen and hot air balloon, exploded on 15 June 1785. Thus, he and his companion, Pierre Romain, became the first known victims of an air crash.

The modern hybrid gas and hot air balloon is named the Rozier balloon after his pioneering design.