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Dennis Gabor | |
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![]() Dennis Gabor | |
Born | Günszberg Dénes 5 June 1900 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary |
Died | 9 February 1979 London, England | (aged 78)
Citizenship | Hungarian / British |
Fields | Electrical engineering Physics |
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Doctoral students | Eric Ash[source?] |
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Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS[1] (/ˈɡɑːbɔrɡəˈbɔr/;[2] Hungarian: Gábor Dénes; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British[3] electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
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Career
While working at British Thomson-Houston that he invented holography, in 1947.He experimented with a heavily filtered mercury arc light source. However, the earliest hologram was only realised in 1964 following the 1960 invention of the laser, the first coherent light source. After this, holography became commercially available.
Personal life
During his time in Rugby, he met Marjorie Louise Butler, and they married in 1936. He became a British citizen in 1946.
Awards
- 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics
References
- ↑ Allibone, T. E. (1980). "Dennis Gabor. 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 26: 106. .
- ↑ "Gabor". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ↑ Hubbard, Arthur T. (1995). The Handbook of Surface Imaging and Visualization. CRC Press, Inc.. . https://books.google.com/?id=VbzL2-zJ6hEC&pg=PA537&dq=dennis+gabor+british+hungarian&q=dennis%20gabor%20british%20hungarian.
- ↑ Ash, Eric A. (1979). "Dennis Gabor, 1900–1979". Nature 280 (5721): 431–433. . .
- ↑ Gabor, Dennis (1944). The electron microscope : Its development, present performance and future possibilities. London. Template:ISBN missing
- ↑ Gabor, Dennis (1963). Inventing the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. Template:ISBN missing
- ↑ Gabor, Dennis (1970). Innovations: Scientific, Technological, and Social. London : Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN missing
- ↑ Gabor, Dennis (1972). The Mature Society. A View of the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. Template:ISBN missing
- ↑ Gabor, Dennis; and Colombo, Umberto (1978). Beyond the Age of Waste: A Report to the Club of Rome. Oxford : Pergamon Press. Template:ISBN missing