Author: LEHMANN, O.,
Title: Die neue Welt der flüssige Kristalle und deren Bedeutung für Physik, Chemie, Technik und Biologie.
Description: Leipzig, Akad. Verlagsgesellschaft, 1911. W. 246 ills. Original blue publ. cloth. (VI, 388 pp.). (Inner upper hinge weakening.). DSB. VIII, 148: '....in 1889 he succeeded H. Herz as professor in physics...at Karlsruhe...His results astonished and peplexed the scientific world, since he demonstrated that the fluidity of many organic substances is not equal to or greater than water but that they also display the double refracting properties of crystals,...stimulated much research in this area..., and these efforts are still continuing ' : Cajori 374. See Darmstaedter, i.l.c.

Keywords: chemistry liquid chrystals