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    Raoul-Pierre Pictet (4 April 1846 – 27 July 1929) was a Swiss physicist. Pictet is co-credited with French scientist Louis-Paul Cailletet as the first...
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  • and politician Raoul Petouille (1894–1978), French racing cyclist Raoul Petretta (born 1997), German/Italian footballer Raoul-Pierre Pictet (1846–1929),...
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    cooling it. Using a cascade method, Swiss chemist and physicist Raoul Pierre Pictet evaporated liquid sulfur dioxide in order to liquefy carbon dioxide...
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    dominated by non-publicly listed banks and private banks, particularly Pictet, Lombard Odier, Edmond de Rothschild Group, Union Bancaire Privée, Mirabaud...
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    she transferred her share of the family fortune to the Swiss private bank Pictet in 2014 and 2019. 1949 : Un chien et madame by Marcel Martin (réalisateur)...
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    and very low temperatures. In 1877, Louis Paul Cailletet in France and Raoul Pictet in Switzerland succeeded in producing the first droplets of liquid air...
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  • proposes a real gas model named later a Van der Waals equation. 1875 - Raoul Pictet develops a refrigeration machine using sulphur dioxide to combat high-pressure...
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  • Paul Cailletet in 1877 (at the same time but with another method than Raoul Pictet). Artificial silk by Hilaire de Chardonnet in 1884. Chamberland filter...
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  • (William Wallace Cargill, Austen Cargill, James R. Cargill, Marion MacMillan Pictet, Cargill MacMillan Sr., Cargill MacMillan Jr, John H. MacMillan Sr., John...
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    estate passed to her nephew, Jean-Pierre Pictet, father of the zoologist and paleontologist Francois-Jules Pictet. It is generally accepted that the...
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  • (1884–1963), balloonist François-Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809–1872), zoologist and paleontologist Raoul Pictet (1846–1929), physicist Adolf Portmann (1897–1982)...
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    Sandrine Maisonneuve, Vincent Segal, 2012 Power Symphony, music for Prix Pictet, 2012 Trio with Vincent Segal, Antonin-Tri Hoang, Edward Perraud, 2012-2013...
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    astronomer Jean-Louis Pictet, who had joined Mallet on his journey to Russia. Pictet's son, Jean-Pierre, was the father of François Jules Pictet, whose own son...
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  • Stanley 781 Remsen, Ira 782 Beneden, Edouard Josephlouis-Marie Van 783 Pictet, Raoul Pierre 784 Pickering, Edward Charles 785 Westinghouse, George 786 Baumann...
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    explaining the constitution of optically active carbon compounds"; in 1903 to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie "for their researches on radium" and in 1968 to John...
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