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Karl Ziegler (1898-1973)
Karl Ziegler was born in Helsa near Kassel in Germany, on November 26, 1898.
He graduated in 1920 under Prof. von Auwers at the University of Marburg/Lahn,
and qualified as a lecturer in 1923. After working for a short period at the
University of Frankfurt/Main, he spent 10 years as a lecturer at Heidelberg.
His research work in the field of radicals with trivalent carbon and his
syntheses of multi-membered ring systems earned him the Liebig Medal in 1935.
In 1936 he became Professor and Director of the Chemisches Institut at the
University of Halle/Saale. In the same year he lectured as a visiting
professor at Chicago University.
From 1943 until 1969 he was Director of the Max-Planck-Institut fur
Kohlenforschung (formerly known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut fur
Kohlenforschung) in Mülheim/Ruhr. He continues his active association with
the Institute in his capacity of Scientific Member. After the war he was
instrumental in the foundation of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, whose
president he was for five years. From 1954 until 1957 he was president of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mineralölwissenschaft und Kohlechemie.
His research work at the above-mentioned institute over the past 20 years on
syntheses and reactions in the chemistry of organ aluminium compounds, his
discovery of organometallic mixed catalysts for the polymerization of olefins
(e.g. the synthesis of high-density polyethylene) - all these are widely
known.
Many honours have been bestowed upon him. He holds honorary doctorates at the
Technische Hochschulen of Hannover and Darmstadt, and of the Universities of
Heidelberg and Giessen. He has received the Liebig Medal from the Verein
Deutscher Chemiker, the Carl Duisberg Plakette from the Gesellschaft Deutscher
Chemiker, the Carl Engler Medal from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Mineralölwissenschaft und Kohlechemie, and the Lavoisier Medal from the
Société Chimique de France. The Werner von Siemens Foundation awarded him
the Siemens Ring. His Nobel Prize was followed by the award of a distinguished
order by the German Federal Government, the Swinburne Medal by the Plastics
Institute, London, the International Synthetic Rubber Medal by Rubber and
Plastics Age, London, and, in 1971, the Carl Dietrich Harries Plakette by the
Deutsche Kautschuk Gesellschaft, as well as the Wilhelm Exner Medal by the
Österreichischer Gewerbeverein, Vienna. He is an honorary senator of the
Max-Planck Gesellschaft, founder president (1970-1972 ) of the
Rheinisch-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften, as well as member or
honorary member of various German and foreign scientific societies and
academies. In 1971, The Royal Society, London, elected him as a Foreign
Member.
On the death of Otto Hahn, Karl Ziegler was appointed the latter's successor
to the Order "Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste".
Karl Ziegler has been married to Maria Kurtz, since 1922. His daughter,
Marianne Witte, is a doctor of medicine and is married to the chief physician
of a children's hospital in the Ruhr. His son, Dr. Erhart Ziegler, is a
physicist and patent attorney. Karl Ziegler has five grandchildren by his
daughter and five by his son.
From Nobel Lectures , Chemistry 1963-1970.
Karl Ziegler died in 1973.
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