The electronics industry honors George William Gray, inventor of the LCD screen

The inventor of the LCD screen, George William Gray has passed away leaving as a legacy one of the fundamental developments found in any current device and stimulating an industry that moves billions around the world..

with 87 years old, George William Gray (4 September 1926 – 12 May 2013), inventor of liquid crystal displays (LCD), leaves as a legacy a neat industry that moves billions and more devices that have this screen, essential in today's society.

Gray created and systematized the research and development of liquid crystal materials, key component of LCD displays, establishing a molecular design method for its application in its "Molecular structure and properties of liquid crystals", posted on 1962.

Born in Scotland, the LCD's father was educated at the British University of Glasgow, although he developed his academic career in the University of Hull, where he worked as a professor of Organic Chemistry until 1990, when he moved to Merck Chemicals.

PhD in this branch from the University of London, in 2005 the Royal Shakespeare Company held a monument at the University of Hull to commemorate more than fifty years dedicated to research into liquid crystal materials.

in 1995 won the Kyoto Advanced Technology Award, for its "fundamental contribution to the research and development of liquid crystal materials through the establishment of practical molecular design methods". To his numerous recognitions, Gray is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the British Liquid Crystal Association., among others.

This pioneering chemist and researcher changed the development of the electronics industry, that thanks to the discovery that liquid crystals had correct properties of stability and temperature, the market then and today has millions of devices that contain small liquid crystal or LCD screens.

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