Giulio Natta

Robin's research into the properties of polypropylene, a thermoplastic invented in 1954 by the Italian Nobel prizewinner Giulio Natta, convinced him that this was the means of achieving what Eames had never managed: the really low-cost, mass-production chair.

Robin Day obituary Fiona MacCarthy 2010

I mean is all this fuss about negative Poisson's a mathematical excercise, with curiosity, or is it a real breakthrough which can open new avenues in research, say in cancer, in malaria, in new materials like when the (last) Italian Nobel Prize winner Prof. Giulio Natta invented plastics?

iMechanica - Comments Ajay B Harish 2010

I mean is all this fuss about negative Poisson's a mathematical excercise, with curiosity, or is it a real breakthrough which can open new avenues in research, say in cancer, in malaria, in new materials like when the (last) Italian Nobel Prize winner Prof. Giulio Natta invented plastics?

iMechanica - Comments Lifeng Wang 2010