Giulio Natta

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Giulio Natta
Born	February 26 1903 Imperia, Italy
Died	May 2 1979 (aged 76) Bergamo, Italy
Residence	Italy,
Nationality	Italian
Field	Organic chemistry
Institutions	Pavia University University of Rome Politecnico di Torino
Alma mater	Politecnico di Milano
Known for	Ziegler-Natta catalyst
Notable prizes	Image:Nobel prize medal.svg Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1963)

Giulio Natta (February 26 1903, Imperia - Bergamo, 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemist, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers. He was born in Imperia, Italy, on February 26, 1903. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1924. In 1927 he passed the exams for becoming a professor there. In 1933 he became a full professor and the director of the Institute of General Chemistry of Pavia University, where he stayed until 1935. In that year he was appointed full professor in physical chemistry at the University of Rome. From 1936 to 1938 he moved as a full professor and director of the Institute of Industrial Chemistry at the Politecnico di Torino. In 1938 he took the head of the Department of chemical engineering at Politecnico di Milano university, in a somehow criticized manner, when his predecessor Mario Giacomo Levi was forced to step down as a consequence of racial laws against Jews being introduced in fascist Italy.

His work at the Politecnico led to the improvement of earlier work by Ziegler and to the development of the Ziegler-Natta catalyst. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1956. His condition became severe enough in 1963, that his son had to help him in Stockholm during the Noble Prize Award Ceremony and a college had to give the lecture. Prof. Natta died on May 2, 1979.

[edit] References

• C.E.H. Bawn (1979). "Giulio Natta, 1903—1979". Nature 280: 707. doi:10.1038/280707a0.

[edit] External links

• [ A biography]
• Natta's Nobel Foundation biography
• Natta's Nobel Lecture From the Stereospecific Polymerization to the Asymmetric Autocatalytic Synthesis of Macromolecules

Awards
Preceded by Max Perutz and John Kendrew	Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Karl Ziegler 1963	Succeeded by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

v • d • e Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) • Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) • Hermann Staudinger (1953) • Linus Pauling (1954) • Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) • Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) • Alexander Todd (1957) • Frederick Sanger (1958) • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) • Willard Libby (1960) • Melvin Calvin (1961) • Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) • Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) • Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) • Robert Woodward (1965) • Robert S. Mulliken (1966) • Manfred Eigen / Norrish / George Porter (1967) • Lars Onsager (1968) • Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) • Luis Federico Leloir (1970) • Gerhard Herzberg (1971) • Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) • E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) • Paul Flory (1974) • John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)
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