Background
Paul Sabatier was born on November 5, 1854, in Carcassonne in Southern France.
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Paul Sabatier was born on November 5, 1854, in Carcassonne in Southern France.
After attending the local Lycée, Paul Sabatier was preparing for the entrance exams of ‘École Normale Supérieure’ and ‘École Polytechnique’ and after being selected by both the institutes he opted to join the former.
He began attending the ‘École Normale Supérieure’ from 1874 and graduated after three years as the topper in his class. He also obtained his doctorate from College de France in 1880.
During his long career, Sabatier received honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Pennsylvania (in 1926, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial celebration), Louvain, and Saragossa.
After a year of teaching physics at the Faculte des Sciences at Bordeaux, Sabatier returned to Toulouse in 1882 to teach physics at the Faculte des Sciences there. In 1883, his duties expanded to include chemistry, and in 1884, at the age of thirty, the earliest allowable, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry. He remained in that post for the rest of his career, refusing offers from the Sorbonne to succeed Henri Moissan and from the College de France to succeed Berthelot.
Sabatier was chosen Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1905, an office which he held for over twenty-five years. In addition to his research and teaching during this period, he was instrumental in the creation of schools of chemistry, agriculture, and electrical engineering at Toulouse. Even after his official retirement in 1929, he continued, by special permission, to lecture until failing health forced him to stop in 1939.
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1920Sabatier was a member of the Academy of Sciences. He had been a corresponding member of it since 1901, but the residency requirement kept him from full membership until a special class of six non-resident members was created, in part so that he could become a full member without having to move to Paris.
Sabatier was a man of great reserve, and there is little information available about his private life.
Paul Sabatier was quite fond of gardening and art.
Paul Sabatier was married to Mademoiselle Herail and the couple was blessed with four daughters. His marriage to Mademoiselle Herail, however, was ended by her death in 1898. He never remarried, and their four daughters were raised with the help of his older sisters.