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
• All pages with titles containing Pictet

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