Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high density polymers. He also received a Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1969.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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May 2
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