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Raoul Pictet

1846 - 1929

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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 to produce liquid oxygen in 1877. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raoul Pictet is the 430th most popular physicist (up from 497th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 308th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Raoul Pictet ranks 430 out of 851. Before him are Louis Harold Gray, John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, and Ernst Chladni. After him are Alan Guth, Homi J. Bhabha, Boris Podolsky, Walther Ritz, William Stanley Jr., and Walther Meissner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Raoul Pictet ranks 39. Before him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Hermann Paul, Paolo Tosti, Svetozar Marković, Boutros Ghali, and Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau. After him are Turhan Pasha Përmeti, F. H. Bradley, Riccardo Drigo, Karl Verner, Carlo Cafiero, and Vyacheslav von Plehve. Among people deceased in 1929, Raoul Pictet ranks 55. Before him are Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Robert Reid, Henri Gervex, Georg von der Marwitz, Asa Griggs Candler, and Aletta Jacobs. After him are José Batlle y Ordóñez, Princess Olga Paley, Adolf Meyer, Hans Delbrück, Basil III of Constantinople, and Elfrida Andrée.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Raoul Pictet ranks 237 out of 1,015. Before him are Pierre Jeanneret (1896), George de Mestral (1907), Emil Brunner (1889), Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Robert Miles (1969), and Ferdinand Kübler (1919). After him are Jean Vanier (1928), Françoise-Louise de Warens (1699), Umberto Agnelli (1934), Walther Ritz (1878), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), and Stan Wawrinka (1985).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, Raoul Pictet ranks 9. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), and Walter H. Schottky (1886). After him are Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Paul Scherrer (1890), Alfred Kleiner (1849), and Ernst Stueckelberg (1905).

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