Patricia Cladis
Patricia Elisabeth Cladis (July 13, 1937 – July 3, 2017) was a Canadian-American physicist who specialized in the physics of liquid crystals. She was a research physicist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey from 1972 to 1997 before founding Advanced Liquid Crystal Technologies in Summit, New Jersey. She was a fellow of the American Physical Society and also received a Guggenheim fellowship. Early life Cladis was born in Shanghai. She attended high school at Little Flower Academy in Vancouver, BC, graduating in 1955. In 1959, Cladis earned her B.A. in combined Honours Mathematics and Physics from the University of British Columbia. She then went on to acquire her M.A. in physics from the University of Toronto in 1960. She received her PhD in physics with a concentration in superconductivity from the University of Rochester in 1968. Career After receiving her master's degree in 1960, Cladis joined Transport Canada, the governmental department of transport, as a meteorologist before moving on to be a programmer-analyst at KCS Ltd. in 1962. She was appointed a position at Western Connecticut State University as an assistant professor of physics in 1963. For the following four years until 1968 she worked as a research