Marc-Auguste Pictet [SEP] place of birth
Marc-Auguste Pictet
Marc-Auguste Pictet (; July 23, 1752 – April 19, 1825) was a scientific journalist and an experimental natural philosopher (physicist, chemist, meteorologist, astronomer) born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva.
Pictet's main contribution to learning was his editing of the "Bibliothèque britannique" (1796-1815), devoted to the diffusion on the Continent of scientific knowledge produced in Great Britain. His own scientific research was leaning towards physical sciences, especially calorimetry, but also astronomy,
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
In addition to that, for:
- 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