Nobel Prize Recipient. Paul Sabatier received world-wide recognition after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912. The coveted award was given according to the Nobel Prize Committee, "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years." He jointly shares the Nobel Prize with Victor Grignard., Performing hundreds of experiments, he researched would later benefit the discovery of the bases of the margarine, oil hydrogenation, and synthetic methanol industries. Starting in 1874 he went to Paris to be educated at one of the most selective and prestigious graduate schools, Ecole Normale Superieure, graduating at the top of his class. He taught physics for a year in a local school at Nîmes. He earned a Doctorate of Science Degree from College de France in Paris in 1880. After a year at the University of Bordeaux, he became a professor at the University of Toulouse Faculty of Science in 1883. In 1905 he became the Dean of Faculty of Science, remaining in this position until retirement. In 1907 Sabatier was offered Moissan's chair at the Sorbonne and that of Berthelot at the Collége de France in Paris, but he decided to stay in Toulouse. He became a close colleague with Jean-Baptiste Senderen, a scientist and a devoted Roman Catholic priest, and the two men co-published 34 notes in the "Accounts of Academy of Science," 11 memoirs in the "Bulletin of the French Chemical Society" and two memoirs in the "Annals of Chemistry and Physics." In 1902 the "methanation reaction of Cox" was first discovered by the two men. In 1905, the two men shared the Academy of Science's Jecker Prize for the discovery of the Sabater-Sendrens Process. Starting in 1905, each man documented their finding separately. He is accurately documented in the publications of learned societies and his most important book, "Catalysis in Organic Chemistry," was first published in 1913, with a second edition in 1920, of which an English translation was published in 1923. In his 1912 Nobel Prize acceptance lecture, Sabatier referred to Senderens six times as his collaborator. Named in his honor, the prestigious school, The Paul Sabatier University is located in Toulouse. He co-foundered "The Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse," a peer-review scientific mathematical periodical. He was a member of scientific societies in the United States, England, Netherlands, and Spain. Besides the Nobel Prize, he received the Prix Lacate in 1897; the Davy Medal in 1915 and Royal Medal in 1918 of the Royal Society; and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1933. He was married with four daughters, one of whom wed the Italian chemist Emilio Pomilio. After retirement, he continued to lecture until his death. In December of 2012, his hometown of Carcassonne had a 100th anniversary celebration of him receiving the Nobel Prize. A bust of him had been placed in the city square many years ago, but at the time of the celebration it was missing. A couple of weeks later, it was found in pieces in a vacant lot. The statues in the square were removed some years earlier to increase parking. The others were placed in libraries and museums, but somehow his was not.