Paul Sabatier (chemist)

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Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier
Born November 5, 1854
Carcassonne, France
Died August 14 1941 (aged 86)
Toulouse, France
Residence Flag of France France
Nationality French
Field Inorganic chemistry,
Heterogeneous catalysis
Institutions Collège de France,
University of Bordeaux,
University of Toulouse
Alma mater Collège de France
Academic advisor   Marcellin Berthelot
Known for Heterogeneous catalysis
Notable prizes Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1912)
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Paul Sabatier (November 5, 1854August 14, 1941) was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1905.

Sabatier's earliest research concerned the thermochemistry of sulfur and metallic sulfates, the subject for the thesis leading to his doctorate. In Toulouse, he continued his physical and chemical investigations to sulfides, chlorides, chromates and copper compounds. He also studied the oxides of nitrogen and nitrosodisulfonic acid and its salts and carried out fundamental research on partition coefficients and absorption spectra.

Sabatier greatly facilitated the industrial use of hydrogenation. In 1897, he discovered that the introduction of a trace of nickel as a catalyst facilitated the addition of hydrogen to molecules of carbon compounds.

Sabatier is best known for the Sabatier process and his works such as La Catalyse en Chimie Orgarnique (Catalysis in organic chemistry) which was published in 1913. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with fellow Frenchman Victor Grignard in 1912.

Sabatier was married with four daughters, one of whom wed the famous Italian chemist Emilio Pomilio.

  • Nobel Lecture The Method of Direct Hydrogenation by Catalysis from Nobelprize.org website
  • Biography Biography from Nobelprize.org website

  • (2004) "Paul Sabatier (to 150th anniversary of his birthday)". Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry 77 (11): 1582. doi:10.1007/s11167-005-0190-6. 
  • E. K. Rideal (1951). "Presidential address. Concepts in catalysis. The contributions of Paul Sabatier and of Max Bodenstein". J. Chem. Soc.: 1640 - 1647. doi:10.1039/JR9510001640. 
  • Hugh S. Taylor (1944). "Paul Sabatier 1854-1941". J. Chem. Soc. 66 (10): 1615 - 1617. doi:10.1021/ja01238a600. 


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