Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor
Born	Günszberg Dénes (1900-06-05)5 June 1900 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	9 February 1979(1979-02-09) (aged 78) London, England
Citizenship	Hungarian / British
Alma mater	Technical University of Berlin Technical University of Budapest
Known for	Holography Gabor filter Gabor limit Gabor transform Gabor atom Gabor wavelet
Spouse	Marjorie Louise Butler ​ ​ (m. 1936)​ (1911–1981)
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (1956) Young Medal and Prize (1967) Rumford Medal (1968) IEEE Medal of Honor (1970) Nobel Prize in Physics (1971)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering Physics
Institutions	Imperial College London British Thomson-Houston
Doctoral students	Eric Ash[source?]

Dennis Gabor CBE FRS^[1] (/ˈɡɑːbɔːr, ɡəˈbɔːr/ GAH-bor, gə-BOR;^[2][3][4][5] Hungarian: Gábor Dénes [ˈɡaːbor ˈdeːnɛʃ]; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British^[6] electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

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.

During his time in Rugby, he met Marjorie Louise Butler, and they married in 1936. He became a British citizen in 1946.

• 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics