title: Pictet
text: # 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
  