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For your discovery and elucidation of the structure and physical properties of discotic liquid crystals. |
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For your contributions to the International Liquid Crystal Society, and for your studies of the physics of liquid crystalline phases, most notably for research into the phenomena of reentrancy, blue phases and banana phases. |
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For your leadership in fundamental and applied liquid crystal research, especially your use of solid state NMR, spearheading the development of liquid crystal polymer dispersions and, more recently, the application of the cholesteric phase in displays. |
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For your seminal derivation of the hydrodynamic equations
for uniaxial nematic liquid crystals. |
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For your long and sustained leadership in the field of chiral liquid crystals that resulted in the discovery of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and the elucidation of their physical properties including the possibility of thresholdless switching and the appearance of dispirations. |
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
For your deep understanding of the physical behavior of liquid crystals which was responsible for their introduction into the world of physics. |
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George W. Gray |
For your design and synthesis of liquid crystalline materials, and the development of structure property correlations that led ultimately to the invention of materials that created the liquid crystal flat panel display industry. |
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For your seminal and most original contributions that have launched many important fields in liquid crystal sciences, technologies and beyond, including electroconvection, permeation, the twisted nematic display, defect unbinding, entropic repulsion force and red blood cell shapes. |
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For your outstanding and sustained contributions to the research and development of liquid-crystal displays, especially defect-free panels featuring high legibility. |
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For your many contributions to the fundamental understanding of structure-property relationships in both thermotropic and lyotropic cholesteric phases and for your exceptional work over the years for Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals in which so many conference proceedings have been published. |
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For your groundbreaking contributions to the understanding and applications of para-, ferro- and antiferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals and for your important contributions to the ILCS including the establishment of Glenn Brown Prizes. |
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For your profound and prolific contributions to the theory of liquid crystals, including the theory of the nematic to smectic transition and especially the prediction of the twist-grain-boundary phase. |
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For your pioneering studies of the molecular physics of liquid crystals, your conception and foundation of the journal, Liquid Crystals, and for your outstanding achievements during your Presidency of the International Liquid Crystal Society. |
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For your fundamental contributions to bridge the gap between macromolecular chemistry, life sciences and the liquid crystalline state of matter. |
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For your pioneering development of fundamental theories and experimental studies of liquid crystals that have contributed significantly to the foundation of our subject. |
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