CHEMIST

Giulio Natta

1903 - 1979

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Giulio Natta (Italian: [ˈd͡ʒu.ljo ˈnat.ta]; 26 February 1903 – 2 May 1979) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giulio Natta is the 219th most popular chemist (down from 178th in 2019), the 1,063rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,116th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Chemist.

Giulio Natta was a chemist who invented the first commercially viable form of polypropylene.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Giulio Natta ranks 219 out of 602. Before him are Paul Lauterbur, Kenichi Fukui, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Sophia Brahe, Leo Baekeland, and Osamu Shimomura. After him are C. N. R. Rao, Ahmed Zewail, Johan Gottlieb Gahn, John Newlands, Joachim Frank, and Hartmut Michel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Giulio Natta ranks 50. Before him are Matthias Sindelar, Claudette Colbert, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Julius Fučík, Abul A'la Maududi, and Eliot Ness. After him are Bruno Bettelheim, Andrei Grechko, Claudio Arrau, Kenneth Clark, Georg Elser, and George Davis Snell. Among people deceased in 1979, Giulio Natta ranks 40. Before him are Yukio Tsuda, Wilhelm Bittrich, Abul A'la Maududi, Francisco Macías Nguema, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Rachele Mussolini. After him are Edvard Kardelj, Wilfred Bion, Mamie Eisenhower, Dimitri Tiomkin, Otto Robert Frisch, and Jean-Marie Villot.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giulio Natta ranks 1,063 out of 5,161. Before him are Rachele Mussolini (1890), John of Capistrano (1386), Publius Cornelius Dolabella (-70), Miuccia Prada (1949), Romuald (951), and Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691). After him are Justus (600), Cola di Rienzo (1313), Alfonso IV of Aragon (1299), Janus of Cyprus (1375), Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774), and Marie Mancini (1639).

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Among CHEMISTS In Italy

Among chemists born in Italy, Giulio Natta ranks 2. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro (1776). After him are Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), Ascanio Sobrero (1812), Édouard Herzen (1877), and Agnes Pockels (1862).

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