Nationality Swiss Role Physicist | Name Raoul Pictet | |
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Born 4 April 1846Geneva ( 1846-04-04 ) Similar People Louis Paul Cailletet, James Dewar, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Horace‑Benedict de Saussure, Robert Owen | ||
Raoul-Pierre Pictet (4 April 1846 – 27 July 1929) was a Swiss physicist and the first person to liquefy nitrogen.
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Pictet was born in Geneva and served as professor in the university of that city. He devoted himself largely to problems involving the production of low temperatures and the liquefaction and solidification of gases.
On December 22, 1877, the Academy of Sciences in Paris received a telegram from Pictet in Geneva reading as follows: Oxygen liquefied to-day under 320 atmospheres and 140 degrees of cold by combined use of sulfurous and carbonic acid. This announcement was almost simultaneous with that of Cailletet who had liquefied oxygen by a completely different process.
Pictet died in Paris in 1929.
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