Pictet
# 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
