Mid Career Awards
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    Randall Kamien

    University of Pennsylvania

    Received the 2010 Samsung Mid-Career Award for exceptional contributions to theoretical physics in the context of soft materials, focusing on liquid crystals and liquid crystalline polymer systems, and virtuoso applications of geometry and topology to the elucidation of the structure of unusual and complex chiral liquid crystalline phases.
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    Timothy Wilkinson

    University of Cambridge

    Received the 2010 LG Display Mid-Career Award for pioneering work in liquid crystal device engineering, including many aspects of the application of liquid crystals in novel liquid crystal on silicon diffractive modulators for telecommunications, the revolutionary class of microdisplays capable of real time video projection of two- dimensional and three-dimensional holographic images, and application of nanomaterials in liquid crystal on silicon devices.
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    Sandeep Kumar

    Raman Research Institute

    Received the 2008 LG Display Mid-Career Award for his work on the synthesis of discotic liquid crystals, including the first room temprature system, design of nematic discotic materials, innovative chemistry and the inclusion of nanomaterials in discotic systems.
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    Igor Musevic

    University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Received the 2008 Samsung Mid-Career Award for his work on the physical studies of antiferroelectric and ferroelectric liquid crystals, measurements of interfacial forces,colloidal particles and their manipulation in nematic liquid crystals.
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