Paul Sabatier:
Paul Sabatier was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
November 5, 1854 in Carcassonne, France
Death:
August 14, 1941 in Toulouse, France
Claim to Fame:
Sabatier was a French chemist who advanced the understanding of catalysts. He was awarded half the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of metallic powder catalysts. He is also known for the Sabatier reaction where hydrogen reacts with carbon dioxide under high temperature and pressure to create methane and water using nickel as a catalyst. The Sabatier principle of catalysts states the interactions between catalyst and substrate should not be too strong or too weak.
