Dennis Gabor

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography · United Kingdom · Scientists · Lived 1900 to 1979 · aged 78

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The physicist who taught light to remember depth - holography, the method that captures three-dimensional information on flat film, earned him a Nobel in 1971.

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2012National Inventors Hall of FameAward1979Died8 February 19791971Holweck PrizeAwardNobel Prize in PhysicsAward1970Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAwardIEEE Medal of HonorAward1968Albert A. Michelson MedalAwardRumford MedalAward1967Young Medal and PrizeAward1963“I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S.”In their wordsp. 18Read the whole statement

“It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is marked by the same author who marked its beginning: Aldous Huxley.”In their wordsp. 18-19Read the whole statement

“The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.”In their wordsp. 161Read the whole statement

1952“Incomplete knowledge of the future, and also of the past of the transmitter from which the future might be constructed, is at the very basis of the concept of information.”In their words"Optical transmission" in Information Theory : Papers Read at a Symposium on Information Theory (1952), as cited in Living Systems (1978)Read the whole statement

1900Born5 June 1900

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I do not know of anything in modern poetry as violently hostile to contemporary life as was the poetry of T. S.
1963, p. 18, Own words
It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end is marked by the same author who marked its beginning: Aldous Huxley.
1963, p. 18-19, Own words
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
1963, p. 161, Own words

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Awards

National Inventors Hall of Fame2012

Nobel Prize in Physics1971

Holweck Prize1971

Commander of the Order of the British Empire1970

IEEE Medal of Honor1970

Albert A. Michelson Medal1968

Rumford Medal1968

Young Medal and Prize1967

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Spouse: Marjorie Louise Butler

About this person

Born in Hungary in 1900, Dennis Gabor arrived at the insight that would define his career: a way to record not just brightness but the full wavefront of light, preserving dimension itself. The work on holography came decades before lasers made it practical, a theory waiting for its technology. He became a British citizen in 1946 and spent most of his working years in England, where the Nobel committee found him in 1971. He died in 1979, eight years after Stockholm confirmed what the physics already knew.

Country

United Kingdom

In common with Dennis

Antony HewishBoth received Albert A. Michelson Medal

Charles H. TownesBoth received Young Medal and Prize

Roy J. GlauberBoth received Albert A. Michelson Medal

Claude Cohen-TannoudjiBoth received Young Medal and Prize

Martin RyleBoth received Albert A. Michelson Medal

Arthur Leonard SchawlowBoth received Young Medal and Prize

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