Since ihe pioneering work of onsager , flory , and maier and saupe , many theoretical physicists have devoted themselves to the work on improving and perfecting molecular statistical theory on the basis of a large of experimental results , such as chandrasekhar , humphries , luckhurst , gelbart , baron , cotter 自onsager ， flory ， maier和saupe先后提出和发展了液晶分子统计理论以来，在大量的实验结果的基础上，许多理论物理学家致力于改进、完善液晶分子理论的工作，如chandrasekhar 、 humphries 、 luckhurst 、 gelbart 、 baron 、 cotter等。
