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Giulio Natta
1903–1979 · Italy · 20th century
Nobel Chemistry 1963
Italian chemist who turned Ziegler catalysts into stereospecific polymerization, producing isotactic polypropylene; he shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with Karl Ziegler.
Nobel Prize work
Shared with Karl Ziegler for the chemistry and technology of high polymers: using Ziegler's catalysts, Natta polymerized propylene into isotactic polypropylene, explained its regular helical chain structure, and founded stereospecific polymerization — the basis of today's stereoregular plastics.
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