Charles-Victor Mauguin

Charles-Victor Mauguin
Born 19 July 1878
Provins
Died 25 April 1958 (1958-04-26) (aged 79)
Nationality French
Fields Mineralogy
Known for Hermann–Mauguin notation

French professor of mineralogy Charles-Victor Mauguin (19 July 1878 25 April 1958) was inventor (with Carl Hermann) of an international standard notation for crystallographic groups known as the Hermann–Mauguin notation or International notation.[1]

Mauguin was the first to notice that when he sandwiched the semi-solid liquid crystals between two aligned polarizers, he could twist them in relation to each other, but the light continued to be transmitted. This phenomenon is called Mauguin regime (waveguide regime) in twisted nematic effect [2] [3] .

References

  1. Wyart, J. "50 Years of X-ray Diffraction" (PDF). International Union of Crystallography. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. Mauguin, C.: Sur les cristaux liquides de Lehman. Bull. Soc. Fr. Miner. 34, 71–117 (1911)
  3. Blinov L.M. Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals (Springer, 2011), pp. 439. ISBN 978-90-481-8828-4 Chapter 11.
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