CHEMISTRY: Paul Sabatier 1912 — Toulouse, France - Nobel Laureates on Waymarking.com

Plaque at the house Allée Paul Sabatier 11, honouring Paul Sabatier, who lived here from 1882 until 1941.

ICI VÉCUT DE 1882 A 1941
LE SAVANT PROFESSEUR ET DOYEN
PAUL SABATIER
MEMBRE DE L'INSTITUT DE FRANCE
PRIX NOBEL DE CHIMIE

Here lived from 1882 until 1941
the scientist, professor and dean
Paul Sabatier
Member of the Institute de France
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Paul Sabatier (* 5. November 1854 in Carcassonne; † 14. August 1941 in Toulouse) was a French physicist and chemist.
Sabatier studied from 1872 science with a focus on physics at the École normal supérieure and the École polytechnique. After graduating in 1877, he was a physics teacher at a high school (Lycée) in Nimes, but continued his studies in Paris in 1878 with Louis Pasteur and Pierre Berthelot at the Collège de France and received his doctorate in 1880 from Berthelot on inorganic sulphur compounds. From 1880 he taught in Bordeaux (Faculty of Sciences) and from 1882 in Toulouse (in physics and chemistry). In 1884 he became professor of chemistry there. In 1930 he became emeritus.
The medical-natural science University of Toulouse ("Toulouse III") bears the name Université Paul Sabatier.
In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals".