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, Karl Biography rape - pics Ziegler virgin 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,
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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, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972
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Karl Ziegler died on August 12, 1973.