| Giulio Natta  Born: 26-Feb-1903
Birthplace: Imperia, Italy
Died: 2-May-1979
Location of death: Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Bergamo Cemetery, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Chemist Nationality: Italy
Executive summary: Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization Italian chemist Giulio Natta's career spanned five decades, and he worked closely with Italian industrial concerns to study high polymers and develop several new processes and products. In 1954 he used a catalyst discovered by Karl Ziegler to introduce an easy, controlled chemical process to produce polymerization with minimal pressure and at room temperature, allowing the affordable manufacture of polyethylenes, polypropylenes, and other industrial plastics. For their Ziegler–Natta catalyst, the two scientists shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1963. Natta remains the only Italian to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
From childhood he always preferred performing chemistry experiments in his family's basement over his school studies, and from adolescence his favorite book was Dante's Divine Comedy. A key promotion that set the stage for Natta's later success came in 1938, when he was named professor and chair of industrial chemistry at his alma mater, Milan Polytechnic, replacing Mario Giacomo Levi, who was fired for being Jewish, under Italy's fascist laws. University: Mathematics, University of Genoa (attended 1919-21)
University: BS Chemical Engineering, Milan Polytechnic, Milan, Italy (1924)
Teacher: Chemical Engineering, Milan Polytechnic, Milan, Italy (1927-33)
Professor: Chemistry, University of Pavia (1933-35)
Professor: Physical Chemistry, University of Rome (1935-36)
Professor: Industrial Chemistry, University of Turin (1936-38)
Professor: Industrial Chemistry, Milan Polytechnic, Milan, Italy (1938-68)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1963 (with Karl Ziegler)
Sir William Perkin Medal 1963
Antoine Lavoisier Medal 1963
Mikhail Lomonosov Gold Medal 1969
John Scott Medal 1971
Accademia dei Lincei 1955
New York Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1958
Austrian Chemical Society Foreign Member, 1960
French Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1964
International Academy of Astronautics 1965
Royal Society of Chemistry Foreign Member, 1966
Russian Academy of Sciences Foreign Member, 1966
Rotary International
Society of Plastics Engineers
Author of books:
Trends in the Organic Chemical Industry (1963, non-fiction; with Italo Pasquon)
Stereochemistry:The Molecule in Three Dimensions (1968, non-fiction)
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