Faculty
Name | Affiliation | Years at Heidelberg | Importance / Notes | Ref |
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Rodolphus Agricola
(1443–1485) |
Humanist Scholar | 1482–1485 | Author of De inventione dialectica - a significant work for Renaissance Humanism and the education of Northern European humanists in the 15th century. | |
Géza Alföldy
(1935- ) |
Historian | 1975–2005 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1986); Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse (2002) | |
Gerhard Anschütz
(1867–1948) |
Jurisprudent | 1900–1933 | Leading commentator of the Weimar Constitution; consultant to the US military government in Germany after World War II; one of the "fathers" of the constitution of Hesse. | |
Friedrich Arnold
(1803–1890) |
Anatomist | 1852–1873 | Privy councillor; described the reflex of coughing when the ear is stimulated (Arnold's nerve cough); the auricular branch of the vagus nerve was nicknamed Arnold's nerve; the Arnold's canal and Arnold's ganglion are named after him. | |
Jan Assmann
(1938- ) |
Egyptologist | 1976–2003 | Developed the theory of cultural memory; published renowned works on the origin and development of monotheism; Ph.D. h.c. from Yale University et al.; Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse (2006) | |
François Baudouin
(1520–1573) |
Jurisprudent | 1555–1561 | Established the palingenetic method of presentation of legal source; reconstructed the original legislation of Justinian; important commentator on Roman law | |
Klaus Berger
(1940- ) |
Theologian | 1974–2006 | Leading interdisciplinary theologian in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s; particularly known for his works on exegetical methodology, history of religion, form criticism, and hermeneutics. | |
Friedrich Bergius
(1984-1949) |
Chemist | ?–? | Chemistry Nobel Laureate "in recognition of the contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"; Ph.D. honoris causa from Harvard University | |
Klaus von Beyme
(1934-) |
Political Scientist | 1974–1999 | First West German university student in Moscow after World War II; president of the International Political Science Association (1982–1985); ranked 10th most important political scientist of the world (1991). | |
Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff (1807–1882) | Anatomist | ?–1843 | One of the first to conclude, based on comparative anatomy of the skull and brain, that women had a general intellectual deficiency for academia. | |
Johann Kaspar Bluntschli
(1808–1881) |
Jurisprudent | 1861–1881 | Co-founder of the Institut de Droit International; author of Privatrechtliches Gesetzbuch für den Kanton Zurich, Geschichte des algemeinen Staatsrechts und der Politik, Das moderne Kriegsrecht, Das moderne Völkerrecht, Das Beuterecht im Krieg; Bluntschli's library was acquired by Johns Hopkins University. | |
Philipp August Böckh
(1785–1867) |
Classical Scholar | 1807–1811 | Author of De Metris Pindari, Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener; pioneer in investigating ancient chronology; Order Pour Le Merite in 1857 | |
Carl Bosch
(1874–1940) |
Chemist | –1940 | Co-founder of IG Farben; Chairman of BASF; Chemistry Nobel Laureate "in recognition of the contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"; eponym of Haber-Bosch process | |
Walther Bothe
(1891–1957) |
Physicist | 1932–1957 | Pour le Mérite (1952); Max Planck Medal (1953); Physics Nobel Laureate (1954) "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith". | |
Markus Büchler
(1955- ) |
Physician | 2001– | Founder and medical director of the European Pancreas Center; director of the Heidelberg Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery; managing medical director of the Heidelberg Clinic for Surgery. | |
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
(1811–1899) |
Chemist | 1852–1899 | Developed the Bunsen burner; worked on the emission spectroscopy of heated elements; discovered together with Gustav Kirchhoff the elements caesium and rubidium. | |
Conrad Celtes
(1459–1508) |
Humanist Scholar | 1495–1496 | Founded the Sodalitas Litteraria Vistulana, Rhenana, Hungarorum, and Danubiana; first to teach the history of the world as a whole; discovered the Tabula Peutingeriana | |
Georg Friedrich Creuzer
(1771–1851) |
Philologist | 1804–1845 | Privy councillor; co-founder of the Philological Seminary at the University of Heidelberg (1807); friend of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Clemens Brentano; liaison with Karoline von Günderrode. | |
Otto Crusius
(1857–1918) |
Classical Scholar | 1898–1903 | President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1915–1918). | |
Johann von Dalberg
(1445–1503) |
Bishop | 1480–1503 | Bishop of Worms (1482–1503); Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg (1480–1503); supported the development of humanism at the University of Heidelberg; friend of Rodolphus Agricola; honored with a bust in the Walhalla temple (1842). | |
Hugo Donellus | Jurisprudent | 1572–1573 | Leading representatives of legal humanism; pioneer in applying the methods of Renaissance humanism to law | |
Thomas Erastus
(1524–1583) |
Humanist, Physician, & Theologian | 1558–1580 | Opponent of Calvinist disciplinary regime and thus father of "Erastianism," denying the church independent jurisdiction over moral infractions in a Christian state. Challenged ideas of Paracelsus and Johann Weyer. | |
Friedrich von Duhn
(1859–1930) |
Archaeologist | 1879–1920 | Recognized scattered fragments of sculpture as the remains of the Ara Pacis; largely expanded the archaeological collection of the University of Heidelberg. | |
Jakob Friedrich Fries
(1773–1843) |
Philosopher | 1806–1816 | Author of Wissen, Glaube und Ahnung, Neue oder anthropologische Kritik der Vernunft, Reinhold, Fichte und Schelling, System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft | |
Hans-Georg Gadamer
(1900–2002) |
Philosopher | 1949–2002 | Elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics"; author of Truth and Method; taught at Heidelberg until his death at the age of 102. | |
Georg Gottfried Gervinus
(1805–1871) |
Historian | 1830–1871 | Founder of Deutsche Zeitung; member of the 1848 Frankfurt Parliament; "Guide of the Nation" in political history | ? |
Otto von Gierke
(1841–1921) |
Jurisprudent | 1884–1887 | Developed important contributions to the Rechtsstaat conception; author of Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht, Deutsches Privatrecht, Naturrrecht und Deutsches Recht | |
Jan Gruter
(1560–1627) |
Humanist scholar | 1597–1627 | Author of Inscriptiones antiquae totius orbis Romani and Lampas, sive fax artium liberalium ; last librarian of the Bibliotheca Palatina | ? |
Levin Goldschmidt
(1828–1897) |
Jurisprudent | 1855–1870 | Major contributor to the development of the German commercial law (Handelsgestzbuch); founder and editor of the Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Handelsrecht; Member of the German Imperial Reichstag; Federal Judge at the Bundesgericht | ? |
Dionysius Gothofredus
(1549–1622) |
Jurisprudent | 1600–1621 | Author of Corpus juris civilis; member of the council of two hundred of Geneva; Dean of the Heidelberg Faculty of Law | ? |
Emil Julius Gumbel
(1891–1966) |
Mathematician | 1924–1932 | Developed the Extreme value theory; founder and editor of Die Weltbühne; anti-Nazi-activist; professor at Columbia University | ? |
Jürgen Habermas
(1929- ) |
Philosopher | 1961–1964 | Author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere; The Theory of Communicative Action; Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy; The Inclusion of the Other; A Berlin Republic; Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe | ? |
Werner Hacke
(1948- ) |
Neurologist | 1987– | Chairman of the Department of Neurology; Feinberg Award recipient; Karolinska Stroke Award recipient | ? |
Karl Hampe
(1869–1936) |
Historian | ? | Author of "Germany under the Salic and Hohenstaufen Emperors"; Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy; Rector of Heidelberg University | ? |
Harald zur Hausen
(1936) |
Physician | 1983–present | 2008 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"; former director of the Heidelberg German Cancer Research Center; member of the faculty of the medical school | |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(1770–1831) |
Philosopher | 1816–1818 | "Father of German idealism"; author of Elements of the Philosophy of Right; Phenomenology of Spirit; Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences; Science of Logic | ? |
Hermann von Helmholtz
(1821–1894) |
Physicist and physician | 1858–1870 | Medicine: developed the mathematics of the eye and theories of vision; cardinal work on the visual perception of space, color vision research, the sensation of tone and perception of sound; physics: introduced theories on the conservation of energy, developed a mechanical foundation of thermodynamics, significant work in electrodynamics and chemical thermodynamics; eponym of Helmholtz resonance | align="center" |
Otto Hesse
(1811–1874) |
Mathematician | 1856–1868 | Cardinal work on algebraic invariants; eponym of the Hessian matrix and the Hesse normal form | |
Alfred Hettner
(1859–1941) |
Geographer | 1906–1928 | Developed a concept of chorology | ? |
Wilhelm Hofmeister
(1824–1877) |
Botanist | 1863–1872 | Discovered the principle of alternation of generations; pioneer in investigating genetics in plants; published a concept of plant evolution eight years before Darwin | ? |
Marsilius of Inghen
(1330?-1396) |
Philosopher | 1386–1396 | Co-founder and first Rector of the University of Heidelberg | ? |
Karl Jaspers
(1883–1969) |
Psychiatrist and Philosopher | 1913–1948 | Major exponent of existensialism; author of Philosophy of Existence; Reason and Existenz; Way to Wisdom; Philosophy is for Everman | ? |
Georg Jellinek
(1851–1911) |
Jurisprudent | 1891–1911 | Author of Allgemeine Staatslehre (General Theory of the State), a groundbreaking work on constitutional law and state philosophy before and during the Weimar Republic; member of the democratic circle around Max Weber | ? |
J. Hans D. Jensen
(1907–1973) |
Physicist | 1949–1969 | 1963 Physics Nobel Laureate "for the discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" | ? |
Oskar Perron
(1880–1975) |
Mathematician | 1914–1922 | Major contributions concerning differential equations and partial differential equations; eponym of Perron–Frobenius theorem and Perron's formula | ? |
Jerome of Prague
(1379–1416) |
Philosopher | 1406–1407 | Introduced Realism in Germany | ? |
Paul Kirchhof
(1943- ) |
Jurisprudent | 1999– | Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany; member of the 2005 CDU shadow cabinet as designated Federal Minister of Finance; proposed a conception to reform the German tax system based on a flat tax | ? |
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
(1824–1887) |
Physicist | 1854–1875 | Contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation; coined the term "black-body"; eponym of "Kirchhoff's laws"; Rumford Medalist | ? |
Karl Knies
(1821–1898) |
Economist | 1865–1895 | Major representative of the historical school of economics; author of Political Economy from the Standpoint of the Historical Method | ? |
Leo Königsberger
(1837–1921) |
Mathematician and historian of science | 1884–1914 | Author of the biography of Hermann von Helmholtz and of Mein Leben | ? |
Albrecht Kossel
(1853–1927) |
Physician | 1901–1927 | 1910 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate "in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through his work on proteins, including the nucleic substances" | ? |
Emil Kraepelin
(1856–1926) |
Psychiatrist | 1891–1903 | Founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics | ? |
Ludolf von Krehl
(1861–1937) |
Physiologist | 1907–1931 | Co-developed the Strophanthin-Therapy for treatment of cardiac deficiencies; cardinal work concerning the physiological and pathological aspects of thermoregulation, metabolism and the circulatory system; Co-founder of the Heidelberg Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research; knighted in 1903, Order Pour le mérite in 1925 | ? |
Richard Kuhn
(1900–1967) |
Chemist | 1928–1966 | Director of the Heidelberg Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research; discovery of the deadly nerve agent Soman; 1938 Chemistry Nobel Laureate "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins" | |
Emanuel Lasker
(1868–1941) |
Mathematician | 1905–1933 | Introduced the concept of a primary ideal, which extends the notion of a power of a prime number to algebraic geometry; World Champion of Chess from 1894–1921, 27 years in a row. | ? |
Lothar Ledderose
(1942- ) |
Art historian | 1976– | Acclaimed work on the history of art of Japan and history of art of China; dean of the Faculty of Philosophy; 2005 Balzan Laureate; Slade Professor at the University of Cambridge in 1992 | ? |
Philipp Lenard
(1862–1947) |
Physicist | 1904–1945 | 1905 Physics Nobel Laureate "for his work on cathode rays"; during the 3rd Reich one of the leading advocats of Deutsche Physik (Aryan Physics). | ? |
Fritz Lipmann
(1899–1986) |
Biochemist | 1929–1931 | Co-discoverer of coenzyme A; professor at Harvard Medical School and Rockefeller University; Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate | |
Karl Löwith
(1897–1973) |
Philosopher | 1952–1964 | Author of From Hegel to Nietzsche and Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History | ? |
Peter Luder
(1415–1472) |
Humanist | 1458–1461 | Introduced Humanistic ideals in Germany | ? |
André Michel Lwoff
(1902–1994) |
Biologist | 1932–1937 | Coined the term Provirus; 1965 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate "for the discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" | ? |
Michael Maestlin
(1550–1631) |
Astronomer and Mathematician | 1580–1583 | First to accept and teach the heliocentric Copernican view; discovered the "golden ratio"; mentor of Johannes Kepler | |
Karl Mannheim
(1893–1947) |
Sociologist | 1922–1930 | Promoted a comprehensive sociological analysis of the structures of knowledge; author of Ideology Utopia; Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction; Sociology as Political Education; professor at the London School of Economics | ? |
Dmitri Mendeleev
(1834–1907) |
Chemist | 1859–1861 | Creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements; eponym of the Mendeleev Medal | |
Matthäus Merian
(1593–1650) |
Humanist Scholar | ~ around 1620 | Pioneering naturalist and illustrator | ? |
Subrata K. Mitra
(1949) |
Political Scientist | 2004– | Cardinal research on Indian society and politics; director of the Heidelberg South Asia Institute; Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques; President of the joint Research Committee on Political Sociology of the International Political Science Association and the International Sociological Association; previously professor at University of California, Berkeley | ? |
Robert von Mohl
(1799–1875) |
Jurisprudent | 1848–1861 | Coined the term of a Rechtsstaat as opposed to an aristocratic police state; knighted in 1837; peerage in 1871 | ? |
Dieter Nohlen
(1939) |
Political Scientist | 1974–2005 | Author of Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook; Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos,; Elections and Electoral Systems; Handbook of the Third World; 1991 Max Planck Research Laureate | ? |
Severo Ochoa
(1903–1995) |
Physician | 1937 | 1959 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate "for the discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" | ? |
Kaspar Olevianus
(1536–1587) |
Theologian | 1560–1576
(on faculty 1561–1562) |
Significant covenant theologian and Calvinist church organizer during the Second Reformation | ? |
Martin Opitz
(1597–1639) |
Poet | 1619–1624 | Author of Dafne, the first German opera; leader of the Heidelber School of Poetry | ? |
Frank R. Pfetsch
(1936) |
Political Scientist | 1999– | Co-founder of the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research; Commissioner of the European Consortium for Political Research; Chaire Elie Halevy and Chaire Alfred Grosser at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; Jean Monnet Professor at Heidelberg | ? |
Enea Silvio Piccolomini
(1405–1464) |
Theologian | 1442–1449 | Pope Pius II; chancellor of the university | ? |
Samuel von Pufendorf
(1632–1694) |
Jurisprudent | 1661–1668 | Pioneer in International Law; influential commentaries and revisions of the natural law | ? |
Georg Hermann Quincke
(1834–1924) |
Physicist | 1875–1907 | Classical investigations of all capillary phenomena; important work in the experimental study of the reflection of light and influence of electric forces upon the constants; DCL honoris causa from Oxford University; LLD honoris causa from Cambridge University | ? |
Gerhard von Rad
(1901–1971) |
Theologian | 1949–1971 | Major contribution to Old Testament studies; author of Theology of the Old Testament; The Problem of the Hexateuch and other Essays; God at work in Israel; Genesis: A Commentary; Deuteronomy: A Commentary | ? |
Gustav Radbruch
(1878–1949) |
Jurisprudent | 1926–1933; 1945–1949 | Major proponent of a renewal of natural law as opposed to the then predominant legal positivism; author of "Rechtsphilosophie", still one of the most important works on legal philosophy in Germany | ? |
Johann Reuchlin
(1455–1522) |
Humanist Scholar | 1492–1498 | Most influential representative of platonism; founder of the newer German Drama; author of De Arte Cabbalistica | ? |
Johann Carl Otto Ribbeck
(1827–1898) |
Classical Scholar | 1862–1887 | Authority on ancient Roman poetry; editor of Ars Poetica of Horace and the Satires of Juvenal | ? |
Heinrich Rickert
(1863–1936) |
Philosopher | 1915–1932 | Co-founder and leader of the Baden School of Neo-Kantians | ? |
Erwin Rohde
(1845–1898) |
Classical Scholar | 1878–1898 | Author of Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks | ? |
Rudy Rucker
(1946- ) |
Novelist and mathematician | 1978–1980 | Founder of the cyberpunk literary movement; author of The Fourth Dimension; the Ware Tetralogy, White Light, Master of Space and Time, Spaceland, Mathematicians in Love; | ? |
Bert Sakmann
(1942- ) |
Physician | 1988– | 1991 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate "for the discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells" | ? |
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
(1779–1861) |
Jurisprudent | ? | Founder of the German Historical School of Law; High Chancellor of Justice of Prussia; celebrated authority on Roman Law; co-founder of the University of Berlin | ? |
Paul Schede
(1539–1602) |
Diplomat and Humanist Scholar | ? | Imperial Ambassador to France, Switzerland, England and Italy; director of the Bibliotheca Palatina | ? |
Edmund Schlink
(1903–1984) |
Theologian | 1946–1971 | Influential authority on Lutheran systematic theology and advocate of Ecumenism; author of The Victor Speaks, Theology of the Lutheran Confessions, The Coming Christ and the Coming Church, The Doctrine of Baptism, The Vision of the Pope | ? |
Friedrich Christoph Schlosser
(1776–1861) |
Historian | 1819–1861 | Author of World History and World History for the German People; teacher of Georg Gottfried Gervinus; "Guide of the Nation" in political history. | ? |
Peter Schlotter
(1945- ) |
Political Scientist | 2005– | Chairman of the German Society for Peace and Conflict Research; Member of the German UNESCO-Commission | ? |
Manfred G. Schmidt
(1948- ) |
Political Scientist | 1997– | Author of Political Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany and of The Welfare State; 1995 Leibniz Laureate; ranked as the third most influential political scientist in Germany, and as the most important researcher in comparative politics in Germany by the German Research Foundation | ? |
Herbert Seifert
(1907–1969) |
Mathematician | 1935–1975 | Eponym of Seifert fiber space, Seifert surface, Seifert-van Kampen theorem, Seifert conjecture, Seifert–Weber space | ? |
Paul Stäckel
(1862–1919) |
Mathematician | 1913–1919 | Groundbreaking work in differential geometry, number theory, and non-Euclidean geometry. Coined the term twin prime | ? |
Dolf Sternberger
(1907–1989) |
Political Scientist | 1947–1985 | One of the founders of political science in post-war Germany; developed the "Concept of Citizenship in German Political Contemporary Thought"; coined the term "constitutional patriotism"; Chairman of the German Society for Political Science | ? |
Gerd Theissen
(1943- ) |
Theologian | ? | Pioneer in the application of the principles and methods of sociology to the study of the New Testament; 2002 Burkitt Medalist | ? |
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
(1772–1840) |
Jurisprudent | 1805–1840 | Re-introduced the ancient Roman Pandectists system which allowed the creation of the German Civil Code | ? |
Ernst Troeltsch
(1865–1923) |
Theologian | 1894–1914 | Author of The Social Teachings of the Christian Church; developed an acclaimed system of philosophy of religion by synthesizing the conceptions of Max Weber and Neo-Kantianism; member of the democratic circle around Max Weber | ? |
Zacharias Ursinus
(1534–1583) |
Theologian | 1561–1576 | Reformer and intellectual mastermind during Protestant Reformation; Principal author of the Heidelberg Catechism | |
Klaus Vogel
(1930–2007) |
Jurisprudent | 1966–1977 | Internationally acknowledged authority in international taxation; member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association | ? |
Johann Heinrich Voss
(1751–1826) |
Poet | 1805–1826 | Author of Wine, Women and Song; published the first German translations of the Odyssey, Hesiod, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Virgil, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, and Shakespear | ? |
George Wald
(1906–1997) |
Biologist | 1933 | 1967 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Laureate "for the discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye" | ? |
Max Weber
(1864–1920) |
Sociologist | 1896–1919 | Founder of modern sociology; author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Politics as a Vocation, The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism, Ancient Judaism, The History of Medieval Business Organisations, The Roman Agrarian History and its Significance for Public and Private Law; widely considered the all-time most important German sociologist | |
Alfred Weber
(1868–1958) |
Political Economist | 1907–1933 | Leader in intellectual resistance during Nazi era; developed the Least Cost Theory; eponym of the Alfred Weber Institute for Economy at Heidelberg | ? |
Claus Westermann
(1909–2000) |
Theologian | 1958–1978 | Leading German Old Testament scholar; author of The Human in the Old Testament | ? |
Wilhelm Windelband
(1848–1915) |
Philosopher | 1903–1915 | Co-founder of the Baden School; author of History Of Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, An Introduction to Philosophy, Theories in Logic | ? |
Bernhard Windscheid
(1817–1892) |
Jurisprudent | 1871–1892 | Co-author of the German Civil Code; knighted in 1868 | ? |
Georg Wittig
(1897–1987) |
Chemist | 1956–1980 | 1979 Chemistry Nobel Laureate "for the development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"; eponym of the Wittig reaction; honorary doctorate of the Sorbonne | ? |
Rüdiger Wolfrum
(1941-) |
Jurisprudent | 1993–present | President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Director of the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for International Law; Vice President of the German Research Foundation; Vice President of the Max Planck Society; United Nations mediator in the Darfur conflict; Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2008 | |
Karl Salomo Zachariae
(1769–1843) |
Jurisprudent | 1807–1829 | Created a reformation the Baden Criminal Code and the Baden Constitution; | ? |
Karl Ziegler
(1898–1973) |
Chemist | –1936 | 1963 Chemistry Nobel Laureate "for the discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"; eponym of the Ziegler-Natta catalyst | ? |
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