Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2012).
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Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor 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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science · Hungarian-British physicist (1900–1979) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · holographer · also Dennis Gabor, Denis Gabor, Gabor
Born 5 June 1900 · Died 9 February 1979 · Q155786
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2012· 1 entry
1983· 1 entry
– the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) established the annual Dennis Gabor Award, "in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, especially those which further t
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1979· 1 entry
Died 1979-02-09.
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1978· 1 entry
A report which was an early warning of several issues that only later received widespread attention
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1971· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his invention and development of the holographic method.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1971).
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Awarded Holweck Prize (1971).
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Was the single recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics with the motivation "for his invention and development of the holographic method" and presented the history of the development of holography from 1948 in his Nobe
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1970· 3 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1970).
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Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1970).
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Expanded on some of the topics he had already earlier touched upon, and also pointed to his interest in technological innovation as mechanism of both liberation and destruction
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1968· 2 entries
Won Albert A. Michelson Medal (1968).
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Won Rumford Medal (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Won Young Medal and Prize (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
Following the 1960 invention of the laser, the first coherent light source
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1963· 1 entry
Gabor published Inventing the Future which discussed the three major threats Gabor saw to modern society: war, overpopulation and the Age of Leisure
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1958· 1 entry
Gabor patented a new flat screen television concept
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1948· 1 entry
Gabor moved from Rugby to Imperial College London, and in 1958 became professor of Applied Physics until his retirement in 1967
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1946· 1 entry
And it was while working at British Thomson-Houston in 1947 that he invented holography, based on an electron microscope, and thus electrons instead of visible light
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1933· 1 entry
Gabor fled from Nazi Germany, where he was considered Jewish, and was invited to Britain to work at the development department of the British Thomson-Houston company in Rugby, Warwickshire
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1927· 1 entry
Studied at Technische Universität Berlin, Doctor of Philosophy (1927).
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1924· 1 entry
Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1924).
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1923· 1 entry
Into the Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize
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1921· 1 entry
Studied at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (1921).
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1918· 1 entry
Later in Germany, at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, now known as Technische Universität Berlin
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1902· 1 entry
The family received permission to change their surname from Günszberg to Gábor
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-06-05.
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