Nobel Prize Winner Paul Sabatier

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Nobel Prize Winner
Paul Sabatier

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Paul Sabatier (1854-1941)
Paul Sabatier is a French chemist.
Member of the Paris Academy of Sciences
(since 1913), the Royal Society of London, the
American Chemical Society, and many other
academies and scientific societies.
Sabatier's main research areas are
thermochemistry and catalysis.
He received the Nobel Prize in 1912, for the
method of hydrogenation of organic
compounds in the presence of fine metals,
which stimulated the development of organic
chemistry.

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• Sabatier-Sanderan reaction:
• 1899 - catalytic hydrogenation of alkenes,
alkynes and aromatic hydrocarbons.
• 1902 - synthesis of methane from carbon
monoxide and hydrogen.

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Paul Sabatier received the Nobel Prize in 1912, for
the method of hydrogenation of organic compounds
in the presence of fine metals, which stimulated the
development of organic chemistry, including the
discovery of Sabatier reaction:
The prize was shared with him by Victor Grignard.

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