Victor Grignard
François Auguste Victor Grignard (born in Cherbourg, 6 May, 1871, died in Lyon, 13 December, 1935) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.
He is most noted for discovering that the element magnesium (Mg), combined with ether, was an efficient catalyst for the process of methylation in 1900. It became known as a Grignard reagent.
In 1910 he became a professor at the University of Nancy.
In 1912 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Sabatier.
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