biography
pronunciation:
[sabatyay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1941)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Carcassonne, S France. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Collège de France, and became professor (1884–1905) and dean (1905–30) at Toulouse. He did notable work in catalysis, discovering processes important for the margarine, oil hydrogenation, and synthetic methanol industries, and shared the 1912 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
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