Pictet

Pictet may refer to:

Surname

  • Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875), Swiss linguist
  • Amé Pictet (1857–1937), Swiss chemist
  • Benedict Pictet (1655–1724), Genevan theologian
  • Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755–1824), Swiss politician
  • Francis Pictet (born 1866), Australian cricketer
  • François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809–1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist
  • Jean Pictet (1914–2002), Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner, honorary doctorate
  • Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752–1825), Swiss physicist
  • Marion MacMillan Pictet, American heiress
  • Raoul Pictet (1846–1929), Swiss physicist, one of the first two people to liquefy oxygen

Other uses

  • Pictet (crater), crater on the Moon, named after Marc-Auguste Pictet
  • Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis, variation on the Bischler–Napieralski reaction producing Isoquinoline
  • Pictet-Hubert reaction, producing Phenanthridine from the 2-aminobiphenyl – formaldehyde adduct and zinc chloride
  • Pictet–Spengler reaction, chemical reaction in which a β-arylethylamine is heated in the presence of an aldehyde and acid
  • The Pictet Group, Geneva-based Swiss bank

See also

  • Pic-Pic, Piccard & Pictet, Swiss automobile
  • LeRoy and Pictet, co-operative company which recruited Germans to settle in Russia in the 18th century
  • Prix Pictet (Pictet prize), international award in photography and sustainability
  • Pictetia
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