Grignard byl synem francouzského plachtaře. Chemii se začal věnovat po ukončení studia matematiky v Lyonu. Během 1. světové války pracoval ve výrobě fosgenu a vyvíjel metody detekce yperitu.
Francois Auguste Victor Grignard (6 May 1871 – 13 December 1935) was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize [2 ] [3 ] for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the…
Victor Grignard was a French chemist and corecipient, with Paul Sabatier, of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of the Grignard reaction. This work in organomagnesium compounds opened a broad area of organic synthesis.
Grignard and his classmates were transferred to other establishments in order to finish the entitlement of their scholarships and Grignard himself had the good fortune to join the University of Lyons, where he was attached to the Faculté…
In 1900 Victor Grignard developed a method for combining more basic organic compounds into more complex ones by causing carbon atoms to be bound to one another.