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Charles Victor Mauguin

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Nationality
  
French

Fields
  
Mineralogy

Name
  
Charles-Victor Mauguin

Notable students
  
Andre Guinier

Known for
  
Hermann–Mauguin notation

Died
  
April 25, 1958, Villejuif, France

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.

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 .

  1. ^ Mauguin, C.: Sur les cristaux liquides de Lehman. Bull. Soc. Fr. Miner. 34, 71–117 (1911)
  2. ^ Blinov L.M. Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals (Springer, 2011), pp. 439. ISBN 978-90-481-8828-4 Chapter 11.

References

Charles-Victor Mauguin Wikipedia