to start the reaction) Sabatier is best known for the Sabatier process and his works such as La Catalyse en Chimie Organique (Catalysis in organic chemistry) which was published in 1913. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with fellow Frenchman Victor Grignard in 1912. He is also known for the Sabatier principle of catalysis. Personal life Sabatier was married with four daughters, one of whom wed the Italian chemist Emilio Pomilio. The Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse is named in honour of Paul Sabatier, as is one of Carcassonne's high schools. Paul Sabatier was a co-founder of the Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse, together with the mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes. Sabatier died on 14 August, 1941 in Toulouse at the age of 86. See also Timeline of hydrogen technologies References External links including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1912 The Method of Direct Hydrogenation by Catalysis 1854 births 1941 deaths People from Carcassonne Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat alumni Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux Academic staff of the University of Toulouse Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the French Academy of Sciences 20th-century French chemists Nobel laureates in Chemistry French Nobel laureates French Roman Catholics Inorganic chemists École Normale Supérieure alumni Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur 19th-century French chemists