Pictet, ADOLPHE (1799-1875), a native of Geneva, and a writer on the Celts and the primitive Aryans. To the same Genevese family belong Marcus Auguste Pictet (1752-1825), physicist; François Jules Pictet (1809-72), zoologist and paleontologist; and Raoul Pictet, chemist and physicist, known in connection with the liquefaction of oxygen.
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