Otto Kratky | |
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| Born | March 9, 1902 |
| Died | February 11, 1995 (aged 92) |
| Education | Technical University Vienna Kaiser Wilhelm Institute |
| Known for | small-angle X-ray scattering |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Vienna Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Czech Technical University in Prague University of Graz |
| Doctoral advisor | Reginald Oliver Herzog |
| Other academic advisors | Herman Francis Mark |
| Doctoral students | Günther Porod Hellmut Fischmeister |
Otto Kratky (German: [ˈɔtɔ ˈkʁatki]; born 9 March 1902 in Vienna – died 11 February 1995 in Graz) 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.[1]