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3 unusual facts about Günther Porod


Günther Porod

Günther Porod (born 1919 in Faak am See near Villach, died 1984 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist.

Worm-like chain

O. Kratky, G. Porod (1949), "Röntgenuntersuchung gelöster Fadenmoleküle." Rec. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas. 68: 1106-1123.

The worm-like chain (WLC) model in polymer physics is used to describe the behavior of semi-flexible polymers; it is the continuous version of the Kratky-Porod model.



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