Friedrich Reinitzer
Friedrich Reinitzer | |
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| Born | 25 February 1857 Prague |
| Died | 16 February 1927 (aged 69) Graz |
Friedrich Richard Reinitzer (25 February 1857 – 16 February 1927) was an Austrian botanist and chemist. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, he discovered properties of liquid crystals (named later by Otto Lehmann).[1]
Reinitzer was born into a German Bohemian family in Prague. He studied chemistry at the German technical university in Prague; in 1883 he was habilitated there as a private docent.[2] From 1888-1901 he was a professor first at Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, then at the technical university in Graz. During 1909 - 1910 he served as the rector of the university.[3] He died in Graz.
While at Karl-Ferdinands-Universität in 1888 he discovered a strange behaviour of what would later be called liquid crystals. For the explanation of their behaviour he collaborated with the physicist Otto Lehmann from Aachen. The discovery received plenty of attention at the time but no practical uses were apparent and the interest soon dropped.[4]
Selected works
[edit]- F. Reinitzer (1888) "Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Cholesterins", Monatshefte für Chemie 9:421–41.
- F. Reinitzer (1891) "Der Gerbstoffbegriff und seine Beziehung zur Pflanzenchemie", Lotos 39.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Cotterill, Rodney (2008-09-18). The Material World. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-58251-0.
- ↑ Dokumentation, Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische (2003). "Reinitzer, Friedrich Richard Kornelius". ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4 (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-15.
- ↑ "Reinitzer, Friedrich Richard". aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at. Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
- ↑ "LCD - Complete History of Liquid Crystal Display". history-computer.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
- David Dunmur & Tim Sluckin (2011) Soap, Science, and Flat-screen TVs: a history of liquid crystals, pp 17–20, Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-954940-5 .
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- 19th-century Austrian botanists
- Austrian chemists
- German Bohemian people
- Scientists from Prague
- 1857 births
- 1927 deaths
- Czech Technical University in Prague alumni
- Academic staff of the Graz University of Technology
- Academic staff of Charles University
- 20th-century Austrian botanists
- Scientists from Austria-Hungary