Dennis Gabor
Hungarian-British engineer and physicist
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Dennis Gabor CBE FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He obtained British citizenship in 1934, and spent most of his life in England. Wikipedia
Born: June 5, 1900, Budapest, Hungary
Died: February 9, 1979 (age 78 years), London, United Kingdom
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Young Medal and Prize, Rumford Medal, and more
Known for: Holography; Gabor filter; Gabor limit; Gabor transform; Gabor atom; Gabor wavelet
Education: Technical University Berlin (1927) and Budapest University of Technology and Economics (1918–1921)
Parents: Bernát Günszberg and Adél Jakobovits
Spouse: Marjorie Louise Butler (m. 1936–1979)