Otto Lehmann

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Otto Lehmann (born January 13, 1855 in Konstanz, Germany; died June 17, 1922 in Karlsruhe) was a German physicist and "father" of liquid crystal technology.

Life

Between 1872 and 1877, Lehmann studied natural sciences at the University of Straßburg and made Ph.D. under Paul Groth. Initially becoming a school teacher for physics, mathematics and chemistry in Mülhausen (Elsass), he starts university teaching at the Königlich-Technische Hochschule in Aachen in 1883. In 1889, he succeeds Heinrich Hertz as head of the Institute of Physics in Karlsruhe.

Since 1912, Lehmann repeatedly was a candidate for a Nobel Prize, but was never awarded one.

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