Peter J. Wild

Wild (German: [ˈvɪlt]; born 1939) is a Swiss electronics engineer and a pioneer of liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology.

After his return to Switzerland in 1969, he joined the new Corporate Research Center of Brown, Boveri & Cie (now ABB) in Baden, Switzerland, developed a phase measurement for an opto-electric current meter on high-voltage lines based on the Faraday effect working with Andre Jaecklin and became the first member of a team developing LCDs from 1970 onwards.

As part of this common project, physicists at Roche discovered and patented the Twisted nematic field effect (TN).

[3] Wild recognized early-on, that matrix-addressing of such displays was important for many potential applications to show images (such as flat-screen computer monitors).

[7] Pioneering work of his team included experiments with LCD projectors[7][8][9] as well as illumination schemes for backlit panels resulting in corresponding patents.