CHEMIST

Karl Ziegler

1898 - 1973

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Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes". He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds, as well as the development of Ziegler–Natta catalyst. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Ziegler is the 74th most popular chemist (up from 97th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Germany (up from 588th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Chemist.

Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 for his work on organometallic chemistry.

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Among chemists, Karl Ziegler ranks 74 out of 602. Before him are Gerty Cori, Vladimir Prelog, Gertrude B. Elion, Dorothy Hodgkin, William Giauque, and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. After him are Hermann Staudinger, Tu Youyou, Paul Sabatier, Albert Hofmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Jan Baptist van Helmont.

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Among people born in 1898, Karl Ziegler ranks 20. Before him are M. C. Escher, Albert Lutuli, George Gershwin, C. S. Lewis, Herbert Marcuse, and Liu Shaoqi. After him are Trofim Lysenko, Gunnar Myrdal, Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, Tamara de Lempicka, and Karl Hermann Frank. Among people deceased in 1973, Karl Ziegler ranks 22. Before him are Ivan Konev, Paavo Nurmi, Hans Kelsen, Henri Charrière, Abebe Bikila, and John Ford. After him are Ludwig von Mises, Charles Greeley Abbot, Anna Magnani, Ferdinand Schörner, Max Horkheimer, and Ragnar Frisch.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Ziegler ranks 315 out of 7,253. Before him are Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Carl Schmitt (1888), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876), and Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808). After him are Baldur von Schirach (1907), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), and Anton Drexler (1884).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Karl Ziegler ranks 16. Before him are Richard Willstätter (1872), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Otto Diels (1876), Robert Bunsen (1811), and Justus von Liebig (1803). After him are Hermann Staudinger (1881), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Carl Bosch (1874), Hans Fischer (1881), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), and Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877).

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