Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist, who, along with Karl Ziegler, won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his work on polymers. Natta developed an interest into experimental chemistry while he was still a school boy. Later, he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering. Three years later, after he had acquired the necessary qualification for teaching, he joined his alma mater as lecturer. Concurrently, he also carried out extensive experimentation and very soon developed an interest in application. His first patent application was filed and granted during this period only. Subsequently, after short stints at Universities of Pavia, Rome and Turin he returned to Politecnico di Milano just before the World War II. His work until now had centered on chemical compounds like methanol, formaldehyde, butyraldehyde, and succinic acid. However, after the Second World War, he began to concentrate mainly on polymers. Later with the financial backings of big Italian companies, he developed new classes of polymers, which brought in a revolution in the Italian industrial scenario. Parallel to his activities as a scientist and an academic, he was also a great inventor. From 1927 to 1970, he filed almost 4000 patents, many of which are of important industrial applications.