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Giulio Natta

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Giulio Natta

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Italian chemist

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Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist who made important contributions to the field of chemistry. His work has been recognized as significant to the development of the discipline, though the specific details of his achievements would require further reading to fully understand.

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  • Kautschukelastische Eigenschaften der Äthylen-Propylen-Copolymere
  • Convegno nel centenario della nascita di Giulio Natta
  • Il polipropilene
  • Memorie dedicate al prof. G. Natta in occasione del suo 70⁰ compleanno
  • Trends in the organic chemical industry

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1963

    for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers

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Official website

Archivio di Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta - Premio Nobel per la chimica 1963

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Encyclopedic overview

Giulio Natta ( Italian: [ˈd͡ʒu.ljo ˈnat.ta]; 26 February 1903 – 2 May 1979) 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, crystalline structures (isotactic polypropylene). This development allowed the production of high-strength plastics that were previously unobtainable. Natta won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for his work on high density polymers. He also received a Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1969.

Biography

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