T. Peter Brody
Award Name : Charles Stark Draper Prize
Year of Award : 2012
Award for : Science and Engineering
Location : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
T. P. "Peter" Brody (April 18, 1920 Budapest, Hungary – September 18, 2011 Pittsburgh, PA, USA) was a British-naturalised physicist and the inventor of Active Matrix Thin-Film Transistor display technology, having produced the world's first Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AM-LCD) in 1972 and the first functional AM-EL (electroluminescent display) in 1973 while employed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh. Brody coined the term "active matrix" and first used it in a published journal article in 1975.He won Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2012 for his contributions to the development of liquid crystal display (LCD) technologies.