Karl Ziegler

<p>Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a <a href="/facts/German_people/F7mBCrJ4">German</a> <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a> who won the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> in 1963, with <a href="/facts/Giulio_Natta/6FDwycRB">Giulio Natta</a>, for work on <a href="/facts/Polymer/eF32E50K">polymers</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Free-radical/qFymuVoT">free-radicals</a>, many-membered rings, and <a href="/facts/Organometallic_compounds/bhqFz2P0">organometallic compounds</a>, as well as the development of <a href="/facts/Ziegler%E2%80%93Natta_catalyst/bkDSDf9d">Ziegler–Natta catalyst</a>. One of many awards Ziegler received was the <a href="/facts/Werner_von_Siemens_Ring/sFNcgxdt">Werner von Siemens Ring</a> in 1960 jointly with <a href="/facts/Otto_Bayer/uYXEqphA">Otto Bayer</a> and <a href="/facts/Walter_Reppe/ymWkKRod">Walter Reppe</a>, for expanding the scientific knowledge of and the technical development of new <a href="/facts/Synthetic_chemical/3KXsVVwC">synthetic materials</a>.
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Karl Ziegler