CHEMIST

Giulio Natta

1903 - 1979

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Giulio Natta (Italian: [ˈd͡ʒu.ljo ˈnat.ta]; 26 February 1903 – 2 May 1979) was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high density polymers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giulio Natta has received more than 184,830 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Giulio Natta is the 178th most popular chemist (up from 204th in 2019), the 1,116th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,228th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Chemist.

Giulio Natta was a chemist who invented the first commercially viable form of polypropylene.

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  • 67.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Giulio Natta ranks 178 out of 602. Before him are Ascanio Sobrero, Sophia Brahe, Johann Josef Loschmidt, John Macleod, Robert F. Furchgott, and Henry Louis Le Chatelier. After him are Robert W. Holley, Richard F. Heck, Germain Henri Hess, John Cornforth, Stanley Miller, and Paul D. Boyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Giulio Natta ranks 52. Before him are Andrei Grechko, Rudolf Abel, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Claudio Arrau. After him are The French Angel, Yisrael Kristal, Vladimir Bartol, Alonzo Church, Ernest Walton, and Claudette Colbert. Among people deceased in 1979, Giulio Natta ranks 38. Before him are Mary Pickford, Otto Robert Frisch, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ernst Chain, Peggy Guggenheim, and Dhyan Chand. After him are Edvard Kardelj, Francisco Macías Nguema, Dimitri Tiomkin, Mamie Eisenhower, Abul A'la Maududi, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giulio Natta ranks 1,116 out of 5,161. Before him are John Singer Sargent (1856), Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), Giambattista della Porta (1535), Giuseppe Moscati (1880), Joannes (400), and Federico Zuccari (1539). After him are Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (1503), Tigellinus (10), Dosso Dossi (1480), Quintus Tullius Cicero (-102), Mathilde Bonaparte (1820), and Antonio Conte (1969).

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Among CHEMISTS In Italy

Among chemists born in Italy, Giulio Natta ranks 4. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), and Ascanio Sobrero (1812). After him are Édouard Herzen (1877), and Agnes Pockels (1862).

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