Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne, who lived from 1854 to 1941. In 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard, and he was honoured for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1874 and graduated at the top of his class three years later, and in 1880 he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree. In 1883 he succeeded Édouard Filhol at the Faculty of Science and began a long collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Senderens.