| Victor Grignard  AKA François Auguste Victor Grignard
Born: 6-May-1871
Birthplace: Cherbourg, France
Died: 13-Dec-1935
Location of death: Lyon, France
Cause of death: Infection
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: France
Executive summary: Grignard Reaction Military service: French Army (1892-93, and again during WWI) French chemist Victor Grignard won the Nobel Prize in 1912 for his doctoral thesis at the University of Lyon, a study of organic magnesium compounds. The paper defined what is now called the Grignard Reagent, a class of extremely reactive and unstable chemical compounds used to synthesize alcohols, carboxylic acids, hydrocarbons, and other compounds, and led to a broad swathe of subsequent developments in organic synthesis. He engineered dichloroethyl sulfide (mustard gas) for use as chemical weaponry during World War I, and later studied ketone splitting of tertiary alcohols, ozonization of unsaturated compounds, and condensation of aldehydes and ketones. Father: Théophile Henri Grignard (marine carpenter)
Mistress: Marie Hébert Grignard
Wife: Augustine Marie Boulant (m. 1910, one son, one daughter)
Son: Robert Paindestre (stepson)
Son: Roger Grignard (chemist, b. 1911)
University: École Normale Spécial, Cluny, France (attended, 1889-91)
University: BS Chemistry, University of Lyon (1894)
University: PhD Chemistry, University of Lyon (1901)
Scholar: Chemistry, University of Lyon (1901-05)
Scholar: Chemistry, University of Besançon (1905-06)
Teacher: Chemistry, University of Lyon (1906-08)
Professor: Chemistry, University of Lyon (1908-09)
Professor: Organic Chemistry, University of Nancy (1909-19)
Professor: General Chemistry, University of Lyon (1919-35)
Administrator: Director, École de Chimie Industrielle de Lyons (1921-35)
Cahours Prize 1901, 1902
Berthelot Medal 1902
Jecker Prize 1905
Lavoisier Medal 1912
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1912 (with Paul Sabatier)
French Legion of Honor Chevalier (1912)
French Legion of Honor Officer (1920)
French Legion of Honor Commander (1933)
British Chemical Society Foreign Member
French Academy of Sciences
French Society of Industrial Chemistry
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Foreign Member
Author of books:
Le Catalyse en Chimie Organique (Catalysis in Organic Chemistry) (1912, non-fiction, two volumes)
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