Jacques Cousteau

Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997) was world renowned as an ocean explorer, filmmaker, educator, and environmental activist. He won three Oscars and the Palme d'Or for his films and was nominated for forty Emmys during the run of his TV series, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. He wrote or coauthored more than seventy-five books, including The Silent World, which has sold 5 million copies in twenty-two languages. As director of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco and a member of the advisory committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency, he was active in the conservation and anti-nuclear-proliferation movements.