ZIEGLER

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• ZIEGLER (noun)
  The noun ZIEGLER has 1 sense:

1. German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973)

  Familiarity information: ZIEGLER used as a noun is very rare.

• ZIEGLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Karl Waldemar Ziegler; Ziegler

Instance hypernyms:

chemist (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

 Context examples 

Six years later, Stegman and Ziegler expanded on that idea, publishing the first work showing how this once-liquid portion of the lower mantle, rather than the core, could have exceeded the thresholds needed to create Earth's magnetic field during that time.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

In a new study, researchers Dave Stegman, Leah Ziegler and Nicolas Blanc provide new estimates of the thermodynamics of magnetic field generation in the liquid portion of early Earth's mantle, and show how long that field was available.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)