Education
Vienna University of Technology.
Vienna University of Technology.
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 served as rector of the university.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.