What is "pictet"

Pictet is a lunar impact crater located just to the east of the larger and more prominent impact crater Tycho. The high- albedo rays and ejecta from Tycho lie across Pictet and spread far to the east and in other directions. Pictet is older than Tycho and is somewhat worn by past impacts. The slightly smaller crater Pictet A intrudes slightly into the southwest rim. The larger crater Pictet E is nearly joined to the north rim. To the east is Saussure, and to the northeast is the larger, worn formation Orontius.

M-A Pictet was the student and later colleague and friend of H-B de Saussure.

Pictet is the surname of several people:

• Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875), Swiss linguist
• Amé Pictet (1857–1937), Swiss chemist
• Benedict Pictet (1655–1724), Swiss theologian
• Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755–1824), Swiss politician
• François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809–1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist
• Marc-Auguste Pictet (1752–1825), Swiss physicist
• Raoul Pictet (1846–1929), Swiss physicist, one of the first two people to liquefy oxygen

In addition to that, for:

• Pictet (crater), crater on the moon, named after Marc-Auguste Pictet
• 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
• Pic-Pic, Piccard & Pictet, Swiss automobile