Engineers and scientists

Heilmeier’s liquid crystal displays used what he called DSM or dynamic scattering method, wherein an electrical charge is applied which rearranges the molecules so that they scatter light. According to the IEEE, “Between 1964 and 1968, at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, a team of engineers and scientists led by George Heilmeier with Louis Zanoni and Lucian Barton, devised a method for lcd television 42 electronic control of light reflected from liquid crystals and demonstrated the first liquid crystal display. This effect is based on an electro-hydrodynamic instability forming what is now called Williams domains inside the liquid crystal.