Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier, was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the brother of Auguste Sabatier...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 August 1858
CountryFrance
nickel period
During the period 1901 to 1905, together with Senderens, I showed that nickel is very suitable for the direct hydrogenation of nitriles into amines and, no less important, of aldehydes and acetones into corresponding alcohols.
chemistry commonly doubt guided ideas influence mechanism nearly owed phenomena steps teacher time twenty
My own ideas on the mechanism of catalytic phenomena were very different from those at one time commonly held, ideas which I no doubt owed to the influence of the illustrious teacher who had guided my first steps in chemistry nearly twenty years before - I refer, of course, to Berthelot.