Many organic crystals melt by passing through intermediate fluid phases that are optically anisotropic. Discovered by the Austrian botanist Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888, such “liquid crystals” were much studied in the early part of this century, but remained no more than a curiosity until recently.
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1982
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