biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–79)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Imperia, NW Italy. Professor at Pavia, Rome, and Turin, from 1939 he held the chair of industrial chemistry at the Milan Institute of Technology. Making use of catalysts developed by Karl Ziegler, he carried out research on polymers which led to important commercial developments in plastics and other industrial chemicals. He and Ziegler shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1963. |
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