CHEMIST

Paul Sabatier

1854 - 1941

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Paul Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; 5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Sabatier was honoured for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Sabatier is the 77th most popular chemist (down from 47th in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from France (up from 501st in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Chemist.

Paul Sabatier is most famous for his work in the field of catalysis. He developed a process for hydrogenation of organic compounds, which is widely used in the chemical industry.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul Sabatier ranks 77 out of 602. Before him are Dorothy Hodgkin, William Giauque, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Karl Ziegler, Hermann Staudinger, and Tu Youyou. After him are Albert Hofmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Frederick Sanger, Carl Bosch, and Robert S. Mulliken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Paul Sabatier ranks 9. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Poincaré, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, and Henri La Fontaine. After him are Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, George Eastman, Milan I of Serbia, and Johannes Rydberg. Among people deceased in 1941, Paul Sabatier ranks 12. Before him are Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, Emanuel Lasker, Maurice Leblanc, and Maximilian Kolbe. After him are Émile Bernard, Arthur Evans, James George Frazer, Robert Delaunay, Ioannis Metaxas, and El Lissitzky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Sabatier ranks 412 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Patrice de MacMahon (1808), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Jean Dubuffet (1901), and Paul Valéry (1871). After him are Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Claude Bernard (1813), James I of Aragon (1208), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Paul Sabatier ranks 10. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), and Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944). After him are Joseph Black (1728), Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), and Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786).

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