George Harry Heilmeier was an American engineer, manager and pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays, for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His work is an IEEE Milestone. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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George Harry Heilmeier (May 22, 1936, April 21, 2014) was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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George H. Heilmeier was inducted in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and credited with the invention of LCDs.
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