Otto Kratky
Otto Kratky | |
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| Born | March 9, 1902 |
| Doctoral advisor | Reginald Oliver Herzog |
| Other academic advisors | Herman Francis Mark |
| Doctoral students | Günther Porod Hellmut Fischmeister |
Otto Kratky (German: 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]
Education and career
Otto Kratky was born in
civil servant. He became a full professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague and from 1943 to 1945 head of the institute for physical chemistry there.[2][3]
From 1946 to 1972, Kratky was a professor at the University of Graz Institute for Physical Chemistry. In 1956/57 he served as rector of the university.[4]
Honors and awards
In 1936, Kratky won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[5] In 1985 he was elected to the German order Pour le Mérite.[6] Kratky was awarded the Erwin Schrödinger Prize by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1964,[7] the Wilhelm Exner Medal in 1970,[8] and the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 1987.
References
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- S2CID 97073569.
- ^ http://boch35.kfunigraz.ac.at/ifc-history/3_ptch.shtml Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine history of physical chemistry at Graz.
- ^ "Kratky, Otto" (in German). Austria-Forum. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ "Orden Pour le Mérite". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ "Preisträger und Preisträgerinnen des Erwin Schrödinger-Preises" (in German). Austrian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.
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