Nobel prize winners Natta

Giulio Natta, Nobel prize winner for chemistry in 1963, died in Bergamo, Italy on May 2, 1979. His scientific interest was originally centered on the use of X rays for the determination of the crystalline structure of organic and inorganic materials. 

The family of polymers, and in particular polyolefins, is important in the modern world because of the very high number of applications in all fields. Among plastic materials, polypropylene is one of the most important, having undergone rapid growth since its discovery in 1954 by the Nobel Prize winner G. Natta of Politecnico di Milano. Today, polypropylene demand is about 40 million ton per year with a market share, among all thermoplastic materials, of about 26%, which is second only to polyethylene (39%). 

Isotactic and syndiotactic polymers are collectively referred to as stereoregular polymers. They are always arranged in a head to tail (a, b) arrangement. Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, the co-winners of the 1963, Nobel Prize in Chemistry developed... 

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