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Karl Ziegler

Born on November 26, 1898

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Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German:; 26 November 1898 – 12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds...led to new polymerization reactions and...

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