Dennis Gabor

The native form of this personal name is Gábor Dénes. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Dennis Gabor
CBE FRS
Gabor, c. 1971
Born
Dénes Günszberg

(1900-06-05)5 June 1900
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died9 February 1979(1979-02-09) (aged 78)
London, England
Citizenship
  • Hungary
  • U.K.
Alma mater
Known for
Spouse
Marjorie Louise Butler
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(m. 1936)​
(1911–1981)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral students

Dennis Gabor CBE FRS[1] (/ˈɡɑːbɔːr, ɡəˈbɔːr/ GAH-bor, gə-BOR;[3][4][5][6] Hungarian: Gábor Dénes, pronounced [ˈɡaːbor ˈdeːnɛʃ]; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who invented holography, which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics for.[7][8][9][10][11][12] He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.[13][14][15]

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  7. ^ Ash, Eric A. (1979). "Dennis Gabor, 1900–1979". Nature. 280 (5721): 431–433. Bibcode:1979Natur.280..431A. doi:10.1038/280431a0. PMID 379651.
  8. ^ Gabor, Dennis (1944). The electron microscope : Its development, present performance and future possibilities. London. [ISBN missing]
  9. ^ Gabor, Dennis (1963). Inventing the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. [ISBN missing]
  10. ^ Gabor, Dennis (1970). Innovations: Scientific, Technological, and Social. London: Oxford University Press. [ISBN missing]
  11. ^ Gabor, Dennis (1972). The Mature Society. A View of the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. [ISBN missing]
  12. ^ Gabor, Dennis; and Colombo, Umberto (1978). Beyond the Age of Waste: A Report to the Club of Rome. Oxford : Pergamon Press. [ISBN missing]
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  15. ^ Wasson, Tyler; Brieger, Gert H. (1987). Nobel Prize Winners: An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. H. W. Wilson. p. 359. ISBN 0-8242-0756-4.