Günther Porod (; 1919 in Faak am See near

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– 1984 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his work on the

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method, done in collaboration with his teacher 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

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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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Porod, Gunther 1919 births 1984 deaths Austrian physicists Academics of the Graz University of Technology

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