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KARL ZIEGLER

Karl Ziegler was a German chemist. He was born in 1898 and died in 1973. He shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with Giulio Natta for their work on plastics and polymers. Ziegler showed that certain compounds (known as Ziegler catalysts) could be used to produce tough polymers with high melting points.
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