
Anthony N. Stranges
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LOCATION: College Station, TX,
Associate Professor of History, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Author of Electrons and Valence: Development of the Theory, 1900-1925, among others.
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Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the Italian chemist Giulio Natta. Ziegler’s research with organometallic compounds made possible the industrial production of high-quality polyethylene. Natta used Ziegler’s organometallic compounds to make…
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