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Authorised form of name	Pictet; Marc-Auguste (1752 - 1825)
Dates	1752 - 1825
Nationality	Swiss
Place of birth	Geneva, Switzerland
Date of birth	23 July 1752
Place of death	Geneva, Switzerland
Date of death	19 April 1825
Research field	Physics
Activity	Education: Pupil and life long friend of H B de Saussure (FRS 1788) Career: Professor of Philosophy, Geneva (succeeded Saussure)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	05/05/1791
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB References: C W P MacArthur, 'Davy's Differences With Gay-Lussac and Thenard: New Light on Events in Paris and on the Transmission and Translation of Davy's Papers in 1810' in NR 1984-85 vol 39 pp 207-228
Virtual International Authority File	http://viaf.org/viaf/56722157
Code	NA6136

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
CB/2/472	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	17 November 1790
CB/2/513	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	8 April 1791
CB/2/547	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	26 July 1791
CB/2/448	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	21 September 1790
CB/2/576	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	10 October 1791
CB/2/421	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	8 June 1790
CB/2/417	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	21 May 1790
CB/2/625	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	9 March 1792
CB/2/225	Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to M A Pictet	9 April 1789
IM/003586	Pictet, Marc-Auguste	1821
EC/1791/13	Pictet, Marc-Auguste: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CB/1/1/251	Drafts of letters from Charles Blagden to Claude Louis Berthollet, William Lewis, R Hale, Mr Osborn, M Pictet, Mrs Guy and Dr Odier	19 April-24 May 1791
AP/4/10/5	Unpublished fragment of a letter, regarding a watchmaking machine from [Paul?] Preudhomme to Jaq [James] Hutton	29 September 1779
L&P/9/189/1	Letter, 'Considerations on the convenience of measuring an arch of the meridian, and of the parallel of attitude, having the Observatory of Geneva for their common intersection' from Marc Auguste Pictet to Joseph Banks	20 October 1790
L&P/9/189	Paper, 'Considerations on the convenience of measuring an arch of the meridian, and of the parallel of attitude, having the Observatory of Geneva for their common intersection' by Marc Auguste Pictet	20 October 1790
HS/13/400	Letter, from Marc August Pictet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Geneva	30 April 1824
HS/13/398	Letter, from Marc August Pictet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Geneva	19 November 1822
HS/13/399	Letter, from Marc August Pictet to Sir John Herschel, dated at Geneva	29 November 1823
MS/957/51	Letter from [Marc-Auguste] Pictet, Geneva, to 'My dear Sir' [Henry Kater]	3 July 1821

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