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Dennis Gabor
Also known as Denis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
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Dennis Gabor was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist best known for inventing holography, a technique for capturing and displaying three-dimensional images using light. His work on holography revolutionized imaging technology and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, making his discovery fundamental to modern applications ranging from security holograms to scientific research.
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- Born
- 1900
- Died
- 1979
- Works
- 17
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- Theory of communication
- Thoughts on the future
- The dangers of inertia-planning for adaptability
- Inventing education for the future
- Redundancy or redeployment
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Dennis Gabor (5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.
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1900 births1979 deaths20th-century British inventors20th-century British physicists20th-century Hungarian inventors20th-century Hungarian Jews20th-century Hungarian physicistsAcademics of Imperial College LondonAcademic staff of Technische Universität BerlinBritish agnosticsBritish electrical engineersBritish fellows of the Royal Society