Human Accomplishment: Raoul Pictet

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a Swiss physicist. Pictet is co-credited with French scientist Louis-Paul Cailletet as the first to produce liquid oxygen in 1877.

Born

4 April 1846 Geneva

Died

27 July 1929 (aged 83) Paris

Nationality

Swiss

Known for

Liquid nitrogen

Fields

Physics

Awards

Davy Medal (1878)

Institutions

University of Geneva

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Switzerland

era

1800+