Background
Natta, Giulio was born on February 26, 1903 in Impwoila, Italy. Son of Francesco and Elena Crespi.
chemist engineer inventor university professor
Natta, Giulio was born on February 26, 1903 in Impwoila, Italy. Son of Francesco and Elena Crespi.
Doctor Chemical Engineering.
Early years
He earned his degree in chemical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in Milan in 1924. In 1927 he passed the exams for becoming a professor there. In 1933 he became a full professor and the director of the Institute of General Chemistry of Pavia University, where he stayed until 1935.
In that year he was appointed full professor in physical chemistry at the University of Rome.
From 1936 to 1938 he moved as a full professor and director of the Institute of Industrial Chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin. In 1938 he took over as the head of the Department of chemical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university, in a somewhat controversial manner, when his predecessor Mario Giacomo Levi was forced to step down because of racial laws against Jews being introduced in Fascist Italy.
Natta"s work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the development of the Ziegler-Natta catalyst. Personal life
In 1935 Natta married Rosita Beati, a woman of great culture and sensitivity, who helped his career in many ways.
They had two sons, Giuseppe and Franca.
Beati died in 1968. Natta was diagnosed with Parkinson"s disease in 1956. Professor Natta died in Bergamo, Italy at age 76.
Member Lincei Academy, Lombard Institute Science and Letters, also honorary. Memberships in foreign chemical societies.