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Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals de David Dunmur

Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals

Autor David Dunmur, Tim Sluckin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2014

Adresat studenților la fizică și chimie, istoricilor științei și practicienilor din industria tehnologică, volumul Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs oferă o perspectivă riguroasă asupra unei stări de agregare care a revoluționat viața modernă. Descoperim aici o lucrare care depășește granițele unui manual tehnic, propunând o istorie factuală ce începe cu observațiile botanistului Friedrich Reinitzer din 1888 și culminează cu dominația ecranelor LCD pe piața globală.

Notăm cu interes modul în care autorii David Dunmur și Tim Sluckin reușesc să explice concepte complexe de fizică a materiei condensate în termeni accesibili, fără a sacrifica precizia academică. Subliniem faptul că, spre deosebire de alte tratate, această ediție publicată de Oxford University Press plasează evoluția științifică într-un context socio-politic extins, explorând scrisorile și disputele personale dintre savanții vremii. Comparabil cu Crystals That Flow în rigurozitate, volumul de față este actualizat pentru a include cele mai recente progrese în ecranele cu rezoluție înaltă și aplicațiile biomedicale ale materialelor cristaline. Structura narativă este susținută de 70 de ilustrații și planșe color, facilitând înțelegerea tranzițiilor de fază și a modulației luminii, elemente esențiale pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă funcționarea dispozitivelor electronice actuale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198700838
ISBN-10: 0198700830
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 70 b/w line and halftone illustrations; 4pp colour plates section
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este recomandată celor care doresc să înțeleagă știința din spatele tehnologiei cotidiene. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă de ansamblu asupra modului în care o curiozitate de laborator a devenit o industrie de miliarde de dolari. Este un instrument valoros pentru studenți, oferind contextul istoric necesar pentru aprofundarea fizicii stării solide, dar și un motiv concret de lectură pentru pasionații de istoria ideilor.

Despre autor

David Dunmur și Tim Sluckin sunt cercetători cu o experiență vastă în domeniul fizicii materiei condensate. David Dunmur este recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale în studiul proprietăților moleculare ale cristalelor lichide, în timp ce Tim Sluckin, profesor la Universitatea din Southampton, s-a specializat în modelarea matematică a fluidelor complexe și în istoria științei. Expertiza lor combinată a permis abordarea acestui subiect din perspective multiple: chimia materialelor, fizica teoretică și evoluția tehnologică, transformând datele brute de laborator într-o narațiune coerentă despre inovația umană.

Descriere

The terms 'liquid crystal' or 'liquid crystal display' (LCD) are recognized in the context of flat-screen televisions, but the properties and history of liquid crystals are little known. This book tells the story of liquid crystals, from their controversial discovery at the end of the nineteenth century, to their eventual acceptance as another state of matter to rank alongside gases, liquids, and solids. As their story unfolds, the scientists involved and their works are put into illuminating broader socio-political contexts. In recent years, liquid crystals have had a major impact on the display industry, culminating in the now widely available flat-screen televisions. This development is described in detail over three chapters, and the basic science behind it is explained in simple terms accessible to a general reader. New applications of liquid crystals in materials, biosystems, medicine, and technology are also explained.The authors' approach to the subject defines a new genre of popular science books. The historical background to the scientific discoveries is given in detail, and the personal communications between the scientists involved are explored. The book tells the story of liquid crystals, but it also shows that scientific discovery and exploitation relies on human interactions, and the social and political environments in which they operate.

Recenzii

Full of charming and not widely known historical anecdotes, this book describes the drama of liquid crystals science from its early days to modern technical applications. One of the most informative and entertaining pieces of popular science history I have seen in years.
Visual communication became transportable through the discovery of that strange state of matter, the liquid crystal. This history is a fascinating account of that discovery and its development and gives considerable insight into the social mechanisms of science in general. The authors do not evade the science itself, treating it lightly but appropriately. Altogether, a detailed, informative, and enthralling account of a crucial part of techonlogical and scientific history.
Dunmur and Sluckin tell an absorbing and colourful story of an area of science that is both rich at the fundamental level and that has brought some of the major new technologies of our age. They follow the twists and turns, and the conflicts, of the science and of the people pursuing it. It is satisfying too when the authors step back from time to time to give the modern view and therefore the resolution of the difficulties of the early protagonists. Most enjoyable!
... engaging monograph ... I recommend this cultured chronicle of the people and history of a delicate state of matter that has had a profound influence on the technologies of communications and displays.
This is a truly stimulating look at the history and science of a little-understood phase of matter and a material that affects our lives every day [...] a truly useful addition to the pedagogical literature on liquid crystals.
It provides a perceptive insight into the evolution of the important area of soft matter and the development from this of an impressive display technology.
The authors delightful weaving of the influence of first individuals and then commercial companies with the advances in science pertinent to developing displays makes for fascinating and entertaining reading.
This is a readable introduction to an influential field, concentrating on personalities within political eras, and demonstrating that as complicated as the science might get, it is still a human endeavor, with all the attendant ambition, misunderstanding, dead ends and eventual enlightenment.
The liquid crystal display has changed the world and will continue to do so. 'Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs' is a true and valuable history of its first 100 years, embracing as it does both the scientific literature and the history and socio-economic background of the individuals and institutions that make up the story.

Notă biografică

David Dunmur received his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford. After three years as a research fellow in the newly formed Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bristol, he was appointed in 1968 as a lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, where he became Head of the Department of Chemistry from 1993 to 1996. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1980. In 1999 he received the George Gray Medal from the British Liquid Crystal Society. From 1996 to his retirement in 2005, he was a research Professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton.Tim Sluckin was born in London in 1951, and educated in Cambridge and Nottingham, where he received his PhD in 1975 for a thesis on the theoretical physics of liquid helium. After several postdoctoral appointments in the USA and in the UK, he was appointed a lecturer in applied mathematics at the University of Southampton in 1981. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics at the University of Southampton. He has also spent extended periods of sabbatical leave abroad, including spells in France (Grenoble), Italy (Milan), and Israel (Haifa). His main research interests have been in mathematical and physical aspects of liquid crystals, but he also has interests in other fluid phenomena. Another of his interests is mathematical population biology, including, in particular, problems to do with human prehistory. More recently he has also published significantly in the history of science.