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Otto Kratky

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Physicist (1902-1995)

AustriaScientistsLived 1902 to 1995 · aged 92
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Otto Kratky was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method, for the Kratky plot, and for the invention of the density metering using the oscillating u-tube principle.

Awards 10

1987Gregori Aminoff Prize
1977Ring of Honour of the Austrian state Styria
1971Cothenius Medal
1970Wilhelm Exner Medal
1964Erwin Schrödinger Prize
1964Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
1961Wolfgang Ostwald Prize
1936Haitinger Prize
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
honorary doctor of the University of Vienna

Connected to Otto 6

Pierre-Gilles de GennesAlso won Wolfgang Ostwald PrizeFritz FeiglAlso won Haitinger PrizeMax MellAlso won Ring of Honour of the Austrian state StyriaJakob YngvasonAlso won Erwin Schrödinger PrizeWillibald JentschkeAlso won Wilhelm Exner MedalKenneth HolmesAlso won Gregori Aminoff Prize

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Otto Kratky was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method, for the Kratky plot, and for the invention of the density metering using the oscillating u-tube principle. The worm-like chain model in polymer physics, introduced with Günther Porod in a 1949 paper, is also named the Kratky-Porod model.

Country
Austria
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1902 to 1995 · aged 92
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5 languages

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