Giulio Natta
Giulio Natta (born February 26, 1903 in Imperia , † May 2, 1979 in Bergamo ) was an Italian chemist and Nobel Prize winner .
life and work
Natta attended the Colombo high school in Genoa and studied chemical engineering at the Milan Polytechnic , where he received his doctorate in 1924. From 1933 he was a professor at the University of Pavia and director of the Institute for General Chemistry for two years . In 1935 he took over the chair of physical chemistry at La Sapienza University in Rome. After only a year he took over the Institute for Industrial Chemistry at the Turin Polytechnic .
During this time he worked in various fields of chemistry. He investigated the properties of plastics by means of X-ray and electron diffraction, carried out kinetic studies of the synthesis of methanol, and began manufacturing synthetic rubber. He also examined the polymerization of olefins, in which he the stereospecific polymerization of olefins and Ethinverbindungen discovered, as well as the asymmetric synthesis of optically active polymers (with them all the side chains are distributed regularly and in a plane), for which he with Karl Ziegler in 1963 the Nobel Prize for Chemistry received.
The Ziegler-Natta catalysts are named after these Nobel Prize winners. They are metal complex catalysts that are formed during the reduction of certain transition metal compounds (such as titanium (III) chloride ) with suitable organometallic compounds (for example diethylaluminum chloride ) and that force stereospecific polymerization of olefins at normal pressure.
In 1964 he became a foreign member of the Académie des Sciences and in 1966 of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .
Web links
- Literature by and about Giulio Natta in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1963 award ceremony for Giulio Natta (English)
- Archive page with works and biographical data by Giulio Natta
Individual evidence
- ↑ From stereospecific polymerization to asymmetric autocatalytic synthesis of macromolecules, Nobel lecture by G. Natta (PDF; 1.5 MB) giulionatta.it. Retrieved December 27, 2009.
- ^ List of members since 1666: letter N. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 27, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Natta, Giulio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Imperia (Liguria) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2nd 1979 |
| Place of death | Bergamo |