Paul Sabatier's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Paul Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; 5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. The birth-card coordinate for November 5 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1912 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1912 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 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

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Paul Sabatier's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Paul Sabatier. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Paul Sabatier in the public record

In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Sabatier was honoured for his work improving the hydrogenation of organic species in the presence of metals. Sabatier studied at the École Normale Supérieure, starting in 1874. Three years later, he graduated at the top of his class. In 1880, he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the College de France. In 1883 Sabatier succeeded Édouard Filhol at the Faculty of Science, and began a long collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Senderens, so close that it was impossible to distinguish the work of either man. They jointly published 34 notes in the Accounts of the Academy of Science, 11 memoirs in the Bulletin of the French Chemical Society and 2 joint memoirs to the Annals of Chemistry and Physics. After the discovery of nickel tetracarbonyl in 1890 they tried to synthesize similar compound with nitrogen oxides, but only discovered different types of oxidation.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Paul Sabatier (chemist) (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

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Natural teaching and mentoring ability

In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: chemistry.

Also on the record

1. As late as 1912, Sabatier believed that it's possible to get "true nitro metals" with dinitrogen tetroxide, but it was later proven that these were not real chemical compounds but just metal oxides with nitrogen dioxide physically absorbed on them.
2. In 1896 Henri Moissan and Charles Moureu discovered that acetylene reacts with some transition metals.
3. Bearing in mind Prosper de Wilde (1835-1916) hydrogenated acetylene on platinum black in 1874, Sabatier and Senderens picked up the topic and continued investigations in the area.
4. The methanation reactions of COx were first discovered by Sabatier and Senderens in 1902.

Other laureates with this card

• Aaron Klug — 1982 Chemistry
• Alain Aspect — 2022 Physics
• Allan M. Cormack — 1979 Physiology or Medicine
• Arvid Carlsson — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• Christiaan Eijkman — 1929 Physiology or Medicine
• D. Carleton Gajdusek — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Desmond Tutu — 1984 Peace
• Didier Queloz — 2019 Physics
• Douglass C. North — 1993 Economic Sciences
• Ferenc Krausz — 2023 Physics
• Glenn T. Seaborg — 1951 Chemistry
• Hans G. Dehmelt — 1989 Physics
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Paul Sabatier's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. November 5 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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