Milan Polytechnic Institute

Franco Piacenti was bom in Florence on 1 July 1927. He completed his entire course of study in his hometown in 1951, majoring in Chemistry under the guidance of Luigi Sacconi (1911-92). Immediately after graduation, he moved to Milan Polytechnic Institute where his mentor was the future Nobel laureate Giulio Natta (1903-1979). At that time, Natta was conducting research on the polymerization of polypropylene which, in 1963, earned him his Nobel Prize, which he shared with Karl Ziegler (1898-1973), who prepared the catalysts that Natta used in his research [33]. 

He was a Professor of Industrial Chemistry, School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Milan, Italy since 1937. He became involved with applied research, which led to the production of synthetic rubber in Italy, at the Institute in 1938. He was also interested in the synthesis of petrochemicals such as butadiene and, later, oxo alcohols. At the same time he made important contributions to the understanding of the kinetics of some catalytic processes in both the heterogeneous (methanol synthesis) and homogeneous (oxosynthesis) phase. In 1950, as a result of his interest in petrochemistry, he initiated the research on the use of simple olefins for the synthesis of high polymers. This work led to the discovery, in 1954, of stereospecific polymerization. In this type of polymerization nonsymmetric monomers (e.g., propylene, 1-butene, etc.) produce linear high polymers with a stereoregular structure. 

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The behavior of the different catalytic systems (containing transition metal crystalline compounds) in the a-olefin polymerization, except for the different degree of stereospecificity, may be connected with a definite kinetic scheme. This was shown by experimental work performed at the Institute of Industrial Chemistry of the Milan Polytechnic. 

NATTA, GIULIO (1903—1979). An Italian chemist along with Karl Ziegler won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1963 for his fundamental work on catalytic polymerization. In 1954 he developed isotactic polypropylene at his laboratory at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, which led to wide application of various stereospecific polymers with organometallic catalysts... 

This book presents an expansion of the highly successful lectures given by Professor Barton at the Polytechnical Institute of Milan under the auspices of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. 

Until 1953, almost all vinyl polymerization of commercial importance was of the free-radical type. Since that time, however, ionic polymerization, chiefly in the form of coordination polymerization, has revolutionized the field. Following discoveries by Karl Ziegler (of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research) and by Guilio Natta (of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan)—who jointly received the Nobel Prize in 1963 for this work—catalysts have been developed that permit control of the polymerization process to a degree never before possible. 

Natta, Giulio. (1903-1979). An Italian chemist bom in Imperia on the Riviera, corecipient (with Karl Ziegler) of the Nobel Prize in 1963 for his fundamental work on catalytic polymerization. In 1954 he developed isotactic polypropylene at his laboratory at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, which led to wide application of various stereospecific polymers with organometalhc catalysts such as triethylaluminum. He was formany years consultant for the Montecatini chemical firm. The researchers of Natta, together with those of Ziegler, made possible the chemical manipulation of monomers to form specifically ordered 3-dimensional polymers having predetermined properties, to which the term tailor-made is often applied. 

The first approach to be checked industrially for the development of detailed mechanisms and the technique of chemical lumping has been worked out at the Polytechnic Institute in Milan for steamcracking The modelled hydrocarbon loads include ethane, propane, the naphthas and even vacuum-distilled diesel fuel, i.e. complex mixtures of hydrocarbons possessing from two to forty carbon atoms. 

Karl Ziegler (1898-1973, German chemist. Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research at Mulheim an der Ruhr) Giulio Natta (1903-1979, Italian chemist. Professor at the Milan Polytechnic and Research Director of Industrial Chemistry). Both shared in 1963 the Nobel Prize for their work on polymerization. 

Michigan, University of 228 Michin Technological Institute 187 Midland Macromolecular Institute 124 Milan Polytechnic 210 Miles, G.W. 8 Miles, W.D. 171... 

K. Ziegler (Max Plack Institute for Coal Research) and G. Natta (Polytechnic Institute of Milan) Nobel Prize 1963 for the discovery and use of titanium-based catalysts in stereoregular polymerization processes. 

Giulio Natta, 1903-1979, Italian chemist, professor at the Polytechnic in Milan and director of the Milan Chemical Institute. He contributed to the development of high polymers, useful in the manufacture of films. 

The IRIS development was initiated with U S. DOE support through the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI). Currently, the institutions involved in IRIS R D are members of the IRIS consortium and include Westinghouse Electric Co. (USA), BNFL (UK), Ansaldo Energia (Italy), Ansaldo Camozzi (Italy), ENSA (Spain), NUCLEP (Brazil), Bechtel (USA), OKBM (Russia), ORNL (USA), CNEN (Brazil), ININ (Mexico), LEI (Lithuania), Polytechnic of Milan (Italy), MIT (USA), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), University of Zagreb (Croatia), University of Pisa (Italy), Polytechnic of Turin (Italy), University of Rome (Italy), TVA (USA), Eletronuclear (Brazil). All team members are stakeholders. 

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