Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)

Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the development of the Ziegler–Natta catalyst. The discoveries of Natta and Ziegler revolutionized polymer science by enabling the low-pressure, stereospecific polymerization of olefins, particularly propylene, into highly ordered, crystalline structures. This development allowed the production of high-strength plastics that were previously unobtainable.

Born

1903

February 26

Died

1979

Era

1900s

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Giulio, in brief

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1903 Born
1979 Died

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364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
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The world in 1903

When Giulio arrived

april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Ahmed Zewail 1946–2016 Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946) Ahmet Davutoğlu 1959– Turkish political scientist, academic, and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Turkey Anton Reicha 1770– Bohemian composer and flautist (died 1836) Bill Johnston 1922– Australian cricketer and businessman (died 2007) Christopher Marlowe 1564–1593 English playwright, poet and translator (died 1593) Honoré Daumier 1808–1879 French illustrator and painter (born 1808) John Harvey Kellogg 1852–1943 American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (born 1852) Margaret Leighton 1922–1976 English actress (died 1976) Mason Adams 1919–2005 American actor (born 1919)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1903

Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990) Jeanette MacDonald 1903–1965 American actress and singer (born 1903)

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