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Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)

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Giulio Natta

Italian chemist (1903–1979)

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.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry,…
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May 2

Day of the year

May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 243 days remain until the end of the year.
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