1854 - 1941
Prof Paul Sabatier FRS(For) HFRSE (French: [sabatje]; 5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Sabatier has received more than 12,088 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Paul Sabatier is the 52nd most popular chemist (down from 45th in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from France (up from 571st in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Chemist.
Paul Sabatier is most famous for his work in the field of catalysis. He developed a process for hydrogenation of organic compounds, which is widely used in the chemical industry.
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Among chemists, Paul Sabatier ranks 52 out of 509. Before him are Gerty Cori, Paul Karrer, Joseph Black, Francis William Aston, Tu Youyou, and Julius Lothar Meyer. After him are Fritz Pregl, Adolf Butenandt, Hans Fischer, Kurt Alder, Jacques Monod, and Melvin Calvin.
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 46
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 47
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 48
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 49
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 50
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 51
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 52
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 53
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 54
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 55
1902 - 1958
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 56
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 57
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 58
Among people born in 1854, Paul Sabatier ranks 11. Before him are Leoš Janáček, Paul Ehrlich, Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, Emil von Behring, and Henri La Fontaine. After him are George Eastman, Milan I of Serbia, Georges Picquart, Engelbert Humperdinck, Johannes Rydberg, and Paul Natorp. Among people deceased in 1941, Paul Sabatier ranks 17. Before him are Arthur Evans, Robert Delaunay, Frederick Banting, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, and Ioannis Metaxas. After him are El Lissitzky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Hans Spemann, Ernst Udet, Werner Mölders, and Werner Sombart.
1854 - 1928
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 5
1854 - 1915
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 6
1854 - 1938
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 7
1854 - 1941
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 8
1854 - 1917
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 9
1854 - 1943
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 10
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 11
1854 - 1932
HPI: 64.15
Rank: 12
1854 - 1901
HPI: 64.08
Rank: 13
1854 - 1914
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 14
1854 - 1921
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 15
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 16
1854 - 1924
HPI: 61.07
Rank: 17
1851 - 1941
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 11
1885 - 1941
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 12
1891 - 1941
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 13
1868 - 1941
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 14
1864 - 1941
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 15
1871 - 1941
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 16
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 17
1890 - 1941
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 18
1892 - 1941
HPI: 66.29
Rank: 19
1869 - 1941
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 20
1896 - 1941
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 21
1913 - 1941
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 22
1863 - 1941
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 23
Among people born in France, Paul Sabatier ranks 564 out of 6,011. Before him are Antipope Clement VII (1342), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Ansgar (801), Jacques Hébert (1757), Marie Tussaud (1761), and Gaston Bachelard (1884). After him are Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Boris Vian (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), Richard Clayderman (1953), Henrietta Maria of France (1609), and Peter the Hermit (1050).
1342 - 1394
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 558
1728 - 1777
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 559
801 - 865
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 560
1757 - 1794
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 561
1761 - 1850
HPI: 66.86
Rank: 562
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 563
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 564
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 565
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 566
1798 - 1874
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 567
1953 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 568
1609 - 1669
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 569
1050 - 1115
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 570
Among chemists born in France, Paul Sabatier ranks 9. Before him are Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Henri Moissan (1852), Alfred Werner (1866), Victor Grignard (1871), and Joseph Black (1728). After him are Jacques Monod (1910), Claude Louis Berthollet (1748), Joseph Proust (1754), Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786), Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (1758), and Jean-Marie Lehn (1939).
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 3
1778 - 1850
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 4
1852 - 1907
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 5
1866 - 1919
HPI: 70.70
Rank: 6
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 7
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 8
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 9
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 10
1748 - 1822
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 11
1754 - 1826
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 12
1786 - 1889
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 13
1758 - 1836
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 14
1939 - Present
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 15