Gerald D. Mahan
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LOCATION: Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Distinguished Professor of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa. Distinguished Scientist, Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. Author of Many-Particle Physics.
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Liquid crystal, substance that blends the structures and properties of the normally disparate liquid and crystalline solid states. Liquids can flow, for example, while solids cannot, and crystalline solids possess special symmetry properties that liquids lack. Ordinary solids melt into ordinary…
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