Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler
Karl Ziegler
Born
Karl Waldemar Ziegler

26 November 1898
Died12 August 1973(1973-08-12) (aged 74)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Marburg
Known forZiegler–Natta catalyst
Ziegler process
Wohl–Ziegler bromination
Thorpe–Ziegler reaction
Organoaluminium chemistry
Organolithium reagent
AwardsLiebig Medal (1935)
War Merit Cross 2nd Class (1940)
Werner von Siemens Ring (1961)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1963)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic chemistry
InstitutionsGoethe University Frankfurt
University of Heidelberg
University of Halle-Saale
Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisorKarl von Auwers

Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 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 [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly useful industrial processes".[1] He is also known for his work involving free-radicals, many-membered rings, and organometallic compounds, as well as the development of Ziegler–Natta catalyst. One of many awards Ziegler received was the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1960 jointly with Otto Bayer and Walter Reppe, for expanding the scientific knowledge of and the technical development of new synthetic materials.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Elsevier was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bawn, C. E. H. (1975). "Karl Ziegler 26 November 1898 -- 11 August 1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 21: 569–584. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1975.0019. JSTOR 769696.