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]

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. http://www-97.oeaw.ac.at/cgi-bin/stipref/web_preise?action=liste&preis=6. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 

Persondata
Name	Kratky, Otto
Alternative names
Short description	Physicist
Date of birth	1902
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Date of death	1995
Place of death	Graz, Austria