Soret may refer to:

Persons

* Charles Soret (1854–1904), a chemist, and son of Jacques-Louis Soret **

Thermophoresis Thermophoresis (also thermomigration, thermodiffusion, the Soret effect, or the Ludwig–Soret effect) is a phenomenon observed in mixtures of mobile particles where the different particle types exhibit different responses to the force of a tempera ...

, also known (particularly in liquid mixtures) as the Soret effect, named for him *

Frédéric Soret Frédéric Soret (12 May 1795 in Saint Petersburg – 18 December 1865 at Plainpalais in Geneva) was a Swiss private scholar in physics and Oriental numismatics. Biography The Soret family originates from Geneva. Frédéric Soret was born ...

(1795–1865), a physicist and numismatist *

Jacques-Louis Soret Jacques-Louis Soret (30 June 1827 – 13 May 1890) was a Swiss chemist and spectroscopist. He studied both spectroscopy and electrolysis. He held the chairs of chemistry (1873-1887) and medical physics (1887-1890) at the University of Geneva. ...

(1827–1890), a chemist, and father of Charles Soret **the

Soret peak In spectroscopy, a Soret peak or Soret band is an intense peak in the blue wavelength region of the visible spectrum. The peak is named after its discoverer, Jacques-Louis Soret. The term is commonly used in absorption spectroscopy, corresponding to ...

, a spectroscopic phenomenon named for him * Julien Soret, French governor of Senegal (1837–1839) * Nicolas Soret, 17th-century playwright

Locations

* Fontaine-la-Soret, a commune in France {{disambiguation