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Date of Birth
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08-April-1950
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Place of Birth
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Konstantynów Åódzki
(Åódź Voivodeship, Pabianice County, Poland)
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Nationality
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United States of America, Poland
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Profession
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Chemist, Professor
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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization, a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made. In 2011 he was a co-winner of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
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