Paul Sabatier (chemist)
Paul Sabatier | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Inorganic chemistry |
Institutions | Collège de France University of Bordeaux University of Toulouse |
Doctoral advisor | Marcellin Berthelot[1] |
Prof Paul Sabatier
Education
Sabatier studied at the École Normale Supérieure, starting in 1874. Three years later, he graduated at the top of his class.[3] In 1880, he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the College de France.[3]
In 1883 Sabatier succeeded Édouard Filhol at the Faculty of Science, and began a long collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Senderens, so close that it was impossible to distinguish the work of either man. They jointly published 34 notes in the Accounts of the Academy of Science, 11 memoirs in the Bulletin of the French Chemical Society and 2 joint memoirs to the Annals of Chemistry and Physics.[4] The methanation reactions of COx were first discovered by Sabatier and Senderens in 1902.[5] Sabatier and Senderen shared the Academy of Science's Jecker Prize in 1905 for their discovery of the Sabatier–Senderens Process.[4]
After 1905–06 Senderens and Sabatier published few joint works, perhaps due to the classic problem of recognition of the merit of contributions to joint work.[4] Sabatier taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Toulouse in 1905.
Research
Sabatier's earliest research concerned the
Sabatier reaction
Sabatier is best known for the
The reduction of
- ∆H = −165.0 kJ/mol
- (some initial energy/heat is required to start the reaction)
Personal life
Sabatier was married and had four daughters, one of whom wed the Italian chemist Emilio Pomilio.[3]
The
Sabatier died on 14 August, 1941 in Toulouse at the age of 86.
See also
References
- .
- S2CID 137424552.
- ^ a b c d "Paul Sabatier - Biography". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2013-12-07.
- ^ a b c Alcouffe, Alain (December 2006), La loi de 1905 et l'université de Toulouse ou la La laïcité au bon sens du terme (in French), Iesr – Toulouse, p. 10, retrieved 2017-07-26
External links
- "Paul Sabatier (to 150th anniversary of his birthday)". Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry. 77 (11): 1909–1912. 2004. S2CID 195233988.
- Rideal, E. K. (1951). "Presidential address. Concepts in catalysis. The contributions of Paul Sabatier and of Max Bodenstein". Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed): 1640–1647. .
- Taylor, H. (1944). "Paul Sabatier 1854–1941". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 66 (10): 1615–1617. .
- Paul Sabatier on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1912 The Method of Direct Hydrogenation by Catalysis