FNRS

The abbreviation FNRS stands for:

• the Belgian Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
• the projects of the physicist Auguste Piccard financed by the same :
  • FNRS-1 , a stratospheric balloon built in 1930 that set an altitude record of over 23,000 m in 1932
  • FNRS-2 , the world's first bathyscaphe built in 1948
  • FNRS-3 , a bathyscaphe built in 1953 using the pressure hull from FNRS-2
• the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique , see Swiss National Science Foundation

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