Sardari L Arora

Sardari Arora was an Indian-born visionary whose dream took root in the United States and ultimately colored the world.

Mr. Arora, who was born in Lahore, British India, and moved to Kent with his family in 1964, became a world-renowned scientist and a pioneer in liquid crystal displays, obtaining the first patent while a research associate in the early 1970s at the Liquid Crystal Institute

Mr. Arora, 78, died Nov. 3, the result of a car crash.

LCDs are most commonly used in watches, televisions and computers.

He used to tell us AbOUT the LCD TVs you could hang on the wall, and here they are, said his daughter, Nita Arora McCargar. In grade school, he regaled her classmates with early versions of the mood ring in the form of patches the children would stick on their skin.

He used to tell us how LCDs were going to be used in limos and ambulances for privacy — so you can make a frosted window, she said.

He was still trying to find a way to continue his research in his own home, his daughter said. He used to give lectures to the little school kids. He was very interested in research right up to the end.

He built a lab in his basement so he could teach his five grandchildren to be fearless in the face of an equation.

Mr. Arora earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Lucknow and was a post-doctoral fellow at Kent State University, where he maintained a research program. He went on to teach on several regional Kent State campuses, retiring in 1995.

He was known as liquid crystal pioneer. He was one of the inventors of Liquid Crytal with US Patent.

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