François Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds. He also wrote some of his experiments in his laboratory notebooks. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912, announced November 12, 1912. Victor Grignard (1/2), “for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry”. Paul Sabatier (1/2), “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”. Victor Grignard: born 1871, Cherbourg, France. Paul Sabatier: born 1854, Carcassonne, France. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).