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'''Edward Peter Raynes''' {{postnom|country=GBR|FRS|HonFInstP}} (born {{birth date|1945|7|4|df=yes}})<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U31994 RAYNES, Prof. (Edward) Peter], ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014</ref> is Professor of [[Optoelectronic]] Engineering at the [[University of Oxford]] (since 1998). He was, and continues to be, an early developer and advocate of [[liquid crystal display]]s (LCDs).

Raynes was educated at [[St Peter's School, York]] and obtained his PhD from the [[University of Cambridge]];{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} he then worked at [[RSRE]] ([[Malvern, Worcestershire|Malvern]]) for 21 years until 1991. He is a Fellow of [[St Cross College, Oxford|St Cross College]].
He has been the [[chief science officer|chief scientist]] of [[Sharp Corporation|Sharp]] Laboratories ([[Europe]]) since 1992.

==Awards==
* IoP Paterson medal 1986
* Society of Information Display <!-- ??? -->{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

==Selected publications==
* Electro-optic response times in liquid crystals, E. Jakeman, and E. P. Raynes, Physics Letters A, Vol. 39, Iss. 1, pp.&nbsp;69–70 1972. {{doi|10.1016/0375-9601(72)90332-5}}
* Improved contrast uniformity in twisted nematic liquid-crystal electro-optic display devices, E P Raynes, Electronics Letters. Vol. 10, pp.&nbsp;141–142. (1974)
* Recent advances in liquid crystal materials and display devices, E. P. Raynes, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. ED-26, pp.&nbsp;1116–1122 (1979).
* Supertwisted nematic liquid crystal displays (review), E. P. Raynes and C. M. Waters, Displays, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, pp.&nbsp;59–63 (1987) {{doi|10.1016/0141-9382(87)90038-2}}
* Optical studies of thin layers of smectic-C materials, Anderson, M.H., Jones, J.C., Raynes, E.P., Towler, M.J., Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Vol. 24, Iss. 3, pp.&nbsp;338–342 (1991) {{doi|10.1088/0022-3727/24/3/016}}
* Ferroelectric liquid crystal display, Koden, M., et al., Shapu Giho/Sharp Technical Journal, Iss. 69, pp.&nbsp;47–50 (1997)

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060320112310/http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/fellows/raynes.htm St Cross information]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060303054954/http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows.html St Cross Fellows]

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