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Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who lived from 1898 to 1973 and made important contributions to chemistry during the 20th century. His work was significant enough to be recognized at the highest levels of the scientific community.
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Karl Waldemar Ziegler ( German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes". He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds, as well as the development of Ziegler–Natta catalyst. One of many awards Ziegler received was the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1960 jointly with Otto Bayer and Walter Reppe, for expanding the scientific knowledge of and the technical development of new synthetic materials.
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1898 births1973 deaths20th-century German chemistsAcademic staff of Goethe University FrankfurtFörderndes Mitglied der SSForeign members of the Royal SocietyGerman fellows of the Royal SocietyGerman Nobel laureatesGerman polymer scientists and engineersGrand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyMarburg University alumni