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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chemical Trickery. This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry was split between Director Karl Ziegler of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim, West Germany, and Professor Giulio Natta of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy. Both men were among the first to recognize the potentialities of macromolecules-the aggregations of thousands of atoms that play an ever-increasing part in modern chemical industry. Some macromolecules, such as the cellulose molecules in cotton or wood, are formed by nature. Others must be formed by chemical trickery. Drs. Ziegler and Natta developed practical methods by which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: Nobelmen & Nobelwoman | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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