Paul Sabatier (chemist)

Paul Sabatier ( born November 5, 1854 in Carcassonne, † August 14, 1941 in Toulouse ) was a French chemist.

Sabatier was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry " for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely divided metals, whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been promoted in recent years to a high degree ."

The medical- scientific University of Toulouse ( " Toulouse III " ) bears his name. The Sabatier process, a methane recovery processes, was named after him.