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Giulio Natta

Chemistry

Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate who lived from 1903 to 1979. His work at the Politecnico di Milano built on earlier research by Karl Ziegler and led to the development of the Ziegler-Natta catalyst; together their discoveries enabled the low pressure, stereospecific polymerization of olefins, particularly propylene, into highly ordered, crystalline isotactic polypropylene, allowing production of high strength plastics that had previously been unobtainable. Natta shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ziegler for this work and also received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1969.

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Birth Year
1903 1
Death Date
1979-05-02 1
Death Year
1979 1
Death Place
Bergamo, Italy 1
Nationality
Italy 1
Nationality
Kingdom of Italy 1
Birthplace
Porto Maurizio, Italy 1
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Nobel 2
Gender
Male 2
Field
Field (category)
Chemistry 1
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1. Giulio Natta (Wikidata)
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): Italy
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  • P20 (place of death): Bergamo, Italy
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  • P27 (country of citizenship): Kingdom of Italy
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  • P19 (place of birth): Porto Maurizio, Italy
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2. NobelPrize.org: Nobel Prize laureate record: Giulio Natta
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  • Nobel API laureate record, prize
    "awardYear": "1963", "category": { "en": "Chemistry",
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Giulio Natta (Wikipedia)
  • Member Of: Nobel Prize, Lead section
    Natta won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for his work on high density polymer.
  • Works In: Organic Chemistry, Infobox: field
    Organic chemistry
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