Lomonosov Gold Medal

Both Giulio and Rosita Natta were fond of the outdoors. She was an avid fisherwoman and he was a collector of fossils and mushrooms. His trips, however, were limited. His mother was killed in an automobile accident and he, not only did not drive, but was even reluctant to ride in an automobile. Nevertheless, he continued as an active director of the Institut but in later life was stricken with Parkinson s Disease and was seriously handicapped in his speech and walk. He was supported by his son Giuseppe when he received the Nobel Prize in 1963. His speech was read by a colleague. He received the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Science in 1909 and was awarded honor degrees finm many universities. 

N. K. Kochetkov, Structure and synthesis of polysaccharides (Lomonosov Great Gold Medal winner lecture), Vestnik Ross. Akad. Nauk, 65 (1995) 730-738. 

Dr. Shchukin is a recipient of the following prizes and awards Lomonosov Prize from the MSU (1972), Lenin Prize from the Soviet Union (1988) (Equivalent to National Medal of Science in the United States), Rehbinder s, Russian Academy of Sciences (1998), and a Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Education (2008). 

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