Genoa University, Italy

Saverio Russo is a senior professor of industrial chemistry at Genoa University, Italy. He has been, and still is, project leader of several research programs supported by the European Union, Italian Ministry of University, and Chemical Companies. He has been working for more than 40 yeare in the field of macromolecular science and technology, mainly on advanced polymeric materials synthesis, characterization and applications. Polyamide 6 by the anionic routes has been one of the major topics of his research. He is author of more than 250 scientific publications, mostly in international journals, and six patents. Prof Russo has been member of the Scientific Committee of INSTM (Interuniversity Consortium of Materiab Science and Technology) and director of its S Hon on Functional and Structural Polymeric Materials. He was the co- itor of four volumes of Comprehensive Polymer Science, Peigamon, 1989 and two supplement volumes (1992 and 1996). He was the organizer and co-chairman of two lUPAC Symposia of Free Radical Polymerization Kinetics and Mechanism, in 1987 and 1996. 

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Giulio Natta (1903-1979) was born in Imperia, near Genoa, Italy, and received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Milan Polytechnic in 1924. After holding positions at the universities of Pavia, Rome, and Turin, he returned to Milan in 1938 as professor of industrial chemistry. For his work on developing methods of polymer synthesis, he shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Karl Ziegler. 

Professor Natta was also a honorary member of many academies (including the New York Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of URSS, and the Academic des Sciences de I lnstitut de France) and chemical societies (including the Belgian Chemical Society, the Swiss Chemical Society, and the French Chemical Society). He also received the laurea honoris causa from the University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, the University of Turin, Turin, Italy, and the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. 

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