About Günther Porod
Lived 1919 – 1984 (aged 64). Günther Porod was an Austrian physicist.
Günther Porod (; 1919 in Faak am See near Villach – 1984 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist.
He is best known for his work on the small-angle X-ray scattering method, done in collaboration with Otto Kratky, and in particular for Porod's law, which describes the asymptote of the scattering intensity I(q) for large scattering wave numbers q. In polymer physics, the worm-like chain model, introduced in a 1949 paper, is sometimes called the Kratky–Porod model.
In 1965 Porod was appointed as professor of experimental physics at the university of Graz. In 1978, he was awarded the Erwin Schrödinger-Preis.
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Who was Günther Porod?
Austrian physicist (1919–1984)
When was Günther Porod born?
Günther Porod was born on 27 November 1919 in Finkenstein am Faaker See.
When did Günther Porod die?
Günther Porod died on 15 May 1984 in Vienna.
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Günther Porod was a physicist.
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Günther Porod was Austrian.
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