Marc-Auguste Pictet (French: [piktɛ]; 23 July 1752 – 19 April 1825) was a Swiss scientific journalist and experimental natural philosopher. Pictet's main...
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is the larger, worn formation Orontius. Swiss physicist Marc-Auguste Pictet (eponym of Pictet crater) was the student and later colleague and friend of...
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and palaeontologist Jean Pictet (1914–2002), Swiss citizen, jurist, legal practitioner, honorary doctorate Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752–1825), Swiss physicist...
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performed in 1790 (reported in English in 1791 in An Essay on Fire) by Marc-Auguste Pictet—ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by...
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was the professor, and later colleague and friend of Marc-Auguste Pictet (eponym of nearby Pictet crater).[citation needed] By convention these features...
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l'Académie du Gard pendant l'année 1811, part 1, pp. 175–182. In 1803, Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752–1825), a Swiss scientist and journalist who publicized the...
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scientists such as Jean-André Deluc, Horace Bénédict de Saussure or Marc-Auguste Pictet climbed to the summit to carry out scientific observations. Before...
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by a group of Genevan scholars first centred on Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752–1825), later around Auguste Arthur de la Rive (1801–1873) and other scholars...
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Guillaume-Jean-Noël de Lavillegris, French Navy officer (d. 1807) July 23 – Marc-Auguste Pictet, Swiss physicist (d. 1825) July 27 – Samuel Smith (Maryland politician)...
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monthly journal of the sciences and the arts published in Geneva by Marc-Auguste Pictet, his younger brother Charles, and their friend Frédéric-Guillaume...
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appear until late 19th century. An earlier experiment in 1790 by Marc-Auguste Pictet demonstrated the reflection and focusing of radiant heat via mirrors...
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well as the introduction of gas streetlights. The scientist Marc-Auguste Pictet had visited Marc Seguin's temporary wire-cable simple suspension bridge at...
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7 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834) July 23 – Marc-Auguste Pictet, Swiss physicist (died 1825) September 18 – Adrien-Marie Legendre...
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pupil Marc-Auguste Pictet succeeded Mallet as director of the observatory. Mallet's astronomical instruments from Avully were purchased by Pictet and the...
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Dalibard/Benjamin Franklin Investigation Lightning 1790 Pictet's experiment Marc-Auguste Pictet Demonstration Thermal radiation 1797 Cavendish experiment...
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Felix Hoppe-Seyler (died 1895), German physiologist. April 19 – Marc-Auguste Pictet (born 1752), Swiss scientific journalist and natural philosopher...
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body under illumination would increase indefinitely in heat. In Marc-Auguste Pictet's famous experiment of 1790, it was reported that a thermometer detected...
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Fokker) Giuseppe Piazzi Jean-Felix Picard Alessandro Piccolomini Marc-Auguste Pictet Edward Charles Pickering William Henry Pickering Pietro Pitati Bartholomaeus...
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Theologie Protestante, a position he obtained with a recommendation of Marc-Auguste Pictet who wrote to Georges Cuvier. In 1812 he received a doctorate in theology...
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Pickering (1858–1938) WGPSN Pictet 43°34′S 7°29′W / 43.56°S 7.49°W / -43.56; -7.49 (Pictet) 59.95 1935 Marc-Auguste Pictet-Turretin (1752–1825) WGPSN...
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the second. Claude Nicollier Emile Plantamour Gliese 86 HD 209458 Marc-Auguste Pictet Marcel Golay Methods of detecting exoplanets NGC 4349-127 Science...
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the Son of William Tell, an allegorical bas-relief for the bust of Marc-Auguste Pictet, and a Hunting and Fishing Group (later renamed Daphnis and Chloe)...
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Geneva. There he lodged with Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure, and knew Marc-Auguste Pictet and Jean-André Deluc. Subsequently, he studied German in Eisenach...
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German Bunsen Society and the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) 1998: Marc-Auguste-Pictet-Prize of the Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève...
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of chemistry. Jean-Marc-Jules Pictet, magistrate and former representative of the Department of Lake Geneva. Marc-Auguste Pictet, professor of physics...
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en caricatures. C. Delagrave. p. 304. Retrieved 2013-05-03. Pictet, Marc Auguste; Pictet de Rochemont, Charles; Guillaume, Frédéric (1889). Bibliothèque...
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Many-worlds interpretation Marangoni effect Marangoni number Marc-Auguste Pictet Marc A. Kastner Marc Henneaux Marcel Audiffren Marcel Brillouin Marcel Grossmann...
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execute busts of the economist Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi and Abraham Auguste Saladin de Budé. A commission for the bust of Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle...
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made his second attempt at publishing, writing a review-article on Marc-Auguste Pictet's review of Jean-Alfred Gautier's Essai historique sur le problème...
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and anatomist who taught Darwin Sir William Parry, Arctic explorer Marc-Auguste Pictet, physicist and meteorologist James Cowles Prichard, ethnologist and...
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