Otto Kratky

Otto Kratky (born 1902 in Vienna, died 1995 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method and for the Kratky plot. The wormlike-chain model in polymer physics, introduced with Günther Porod in a 1949 paper, is also named the Kratky-Porod model.

From 1946 to 1972, he was professor at the University of Graz Institute for Physical Chemistry. In 1956/57 he was rector of the university.^[1] In 1985 was elected to the German order Pour le Mérite.^[2] In 1964, he was awarded the Erwin Schrödinger-Preis by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.^[3] Awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 1987.

References

1. ↑ http://boch35.kfunigraz.ac.at/ifc-history/3_ptch.shtml history of physical chemistry at Graz.
2. ↑ http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/1892/laudatio?m=2
3. ↑ "Preisträger und Preisträgerinnen des Erwin Schrödinger-Preises" (in German). Austrian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2011.