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Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the development of the Ziegler–Natta catalyst. The discoveries of Natta and Ziegler revolutionized polymer science by enabling the low-pressure, stereospecific polymerization of olefins, particularly propylene, into highly ordered, cr…
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science · Italian chemist (1903–1979) · chemist · inventor · university teacher · also Giulio Natta, Natta
Born 26 February 1903 · Died 2 May 1979 · Q234145
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2018· 1 entry
Ansa: 55 anni fa il Nobel a Giulio Natta, papà della plastica
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2003· 1 entry
Il Sussidiario: SCIENZA&STORIA/ La Scuola di Natta. Ricordando Giulio Natta nel centenario della nascita
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1979· 1 entry
Died 1979-05-02.
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1969· 1 entry
Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1969).
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1963· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1963).
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Awarded John Scott Award (1963).
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With Karl Ziegler for his work on high density polymer
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1961· 1 entry
With the approval of the National Research Council, Natta founded a new macromolecular chemistry research institute
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1956· 1 entry
Natta was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1956.
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1938· 2 entries
Took over as the head of the Department of chemical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university, in a somewhat controversial manner, when his predecessor Mario Giacomo Levi was forced to step down because of r
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Contributed to the construction of the first synthetic rubber production plant in Italy, in Ferrara
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1935· 1 entry
Natta married Rosita Beati; a graduate in literature, she coined the terms "isotactic", "atactic" and "syndiotactic" for polymers discovered by her husband
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1933· 1 entry
Became a full professor and the director of the Institute of General Chemistry of Pavia University, where he stayed until 1935
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1927· 1 entry
Passed the exams for becoming a professor there
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-02-26.
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