Pictet may refer to:
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Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875), Swiss linguist
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Amé Pictet (1857–1937), Swiss chemist
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Benedict Pictet (1655–1724), Genevan theologian
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Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755–1824), Swiss politician
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Francis Pictet (born 1866), Australian cricketer
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François Jules Pictet de la Rive
François-Jules Pictet de la Rive (27 September 180915 March 1872) was a Switzerland, Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist.
Biography
He was born in Geneva. He graduated B. Sc. at Geneva in 1829, and pursued his studies for a short time at Paris, ...
(1809–1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist
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Jean Pictet
Jean Simon Pictet (2 September 1914, Geneva – 30 March 2002, Meyrin) was a Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner working in international humanitarian law. First as a secretary-jurist, and then as a senior executive and Vice-President of t ...
(1914–2002), Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner, honorary doctorate
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Marc-Auguste Pictet
Marc-Auguste Pictet (; 23 July 1752 – 19 April 1825) was a Genevan scientific journalist and experimental natural philosopher.
Pictet's main contribution to learning was his editing of the scientific section of the '' Bibliothèque Britanni ...
(1752–1825), Swiss physicist
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Marion MacMillan Pictet
Marion Hamilton MacMillan Pictet (October 17, 1932 - August 30, 2009) was an American heiress.Brian SolomonThe Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree ''Forbes'', 9/22/2011
She was a great-granddaughter of William Wallace Cargill, th ...
, American heiress
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Raoul Pictet
Raoul-Pierre Pictet (4 April 1846 – 27 July 1929) was a Swiss physicist. Pictet is co-credited with French scientist Louis-Paul Cailletet as the first to produce liquid oxygen in 1877.
Biography
Pictet was born in Geneva. He served as profe ...
(1846–1929), Swiss physicist, one of the first two people to liquefy oxygen
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Pictet (crater)
Pictet is a lunar impact crater located just to the east of the larger and more prominent impact crater Tycho. The high-albedo
Albedo ( ; ) is the fraction of sunlight that is Diffuse reflection, diffusely reflected by a body. It is measured ...
, crater on the Moon, named after Marc-Auguste Pictet
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Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis, variation on the Bischler–Napieralski reaction producing Isoquinoline
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Pictet-Hubert reaction
Phenanthridine is a nitrogen heterocyclic compound with the formula . It is a colorless solid, although impure samples can be brownish. It is a precursor to DNA-binding fluorescent dyes through intercalation. Examples of such dyes are ethidium ...
, producing Phenanthridine from the 2-aminobiphenyl – formaldehyde adduct and zinc chloride
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Pictet–Spengler reaction
The Pictet–Spengler reaction is a chemical reaction in which a β-arylethylamine undergoes Condensation reaction, condensation with an aldehyde or ketone followed by ring closure. The reaction was first discovered in 1911 by Amé Pictet and The ...
, chemical reaction in which a β-arylethylamine is heated in the presence of an aldehyde and acid
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The Pictet Group
The Pictet Group, known as Pictet, is a Swiss multinational private bank and financial services company founded in Switzerland. Headquartered in Geneva, it is one of the largest Swiss banks and primarily offers services in wealth management, as ...
, Swiss private bank
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Pic-Pic
Pic-Pic was a Switzerland, Swiss automobile manufactured in Geneva from 1906 to 1924. They were produced by the Piccard-Pictet Company (whence its name derives) until 1920, and by Gnome et Rhône from 1920 until the demise of the marque in 1924. ...
, Piccard & Pictet, Swiss automobile
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LeRoy and Pictet
LeRoy and Pictet was a co-operative company which recruited Germans to settle in Russia in the 18th century, under commission by Tsarina Catherine the Great.
The company was formed by LeRoy, a Frenchman, Pictet, a Swiss from Geneva, and Sonntag, a ...
, co-operative company which recruited Germans to settle in Russia in the 18th century
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Prix Pictet The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its ...
(Pictet prize), international award in photography and sustainability
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Pictetia
''Pictetia'' is a genus of about eight species of trees and shrubs in the family Fabaceae with Thorns, spines, and prickles, spiny stems and (in six of the eight species) spine-tipped leaflets.Beyra & Lavin (1999), pp.36–38 The genus is endemis ...
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