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NATTA, Giulio

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(1903-79), Italian chemist and Nobel laureate, born in Imperia, Italy, on Feb. 26 1903. He earned a degree in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1924. After positions at Pavia, Rome, and Turin, he returned there to the Polytechnic in 1938 to begin a long career as a professor and director of the Department of Industrial Chemistry.

In the 1950s, with support from the Italian company Montecatani, Natta expanded on experiments conducted by the German chemist Karl Ziegler on organometallic catalysts. In 1963 he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Ziegler for “discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers” that led to the production of better plastics and other commercially important synthetic compounds.

He died on May 2, 1979.

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