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The text is set out in five chapters and includes several hundred references, so is very comprehensive... This volume has something for the historian of the modern chemical industry, and also for the specialist interested on how the patent system works. (Materials World, February 2009) The book offers eloquent testimony of how difficult and costly it is to convert research results into commercial success stories. (RFP, 1/2008)

The text is set out in five chapters and includes several hundred references, so is very comprehensive... This volume has something for the historian of the modern chemical industry, and also for the specialist interested on how the patent system works. (Materials World, February 2009) The book offers eloquent testimony of how difficult and costly it is to convert research results into commercial success stories. (RFP, 1/2008)

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Heinz Martin has been a close colleague of Prof. Ziegler at the Max-Planck-Institute of Carbon Research in Mühlheim/Ruhr (Germany) and played an important key role in the invention of Ziegler´s Polyolefine catalysts in 1953/54. In 1970 he became Co-director of the Studien- und Verwertungs GmbH (founded in 1925), which became the Studiengesellschaft Kohle GmbH in 1955, a trustee of the MPI in Mühlheim, with H. Martin as director.

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