Comment on the history of the stretched exponential function

Abstract

The original article of Rudolf Kohlrausch (1854) on stretched exponentials and their application to describe relaxation phenomena has been often misquoted in the literature after its rediscovery around 1984. We discuss here this fact and attempt to set the record straight.

5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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