Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor  ( ;  ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.Gabor, Dennis (1944). The electron microscope : Its development, present performance and future possibilities. London. Gabor, Dennis (1963). Inventing the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. Gabor, Dennis (1970). Innovations: Scientific, Technological, and Social. London : Oxford University Press. Gabor, Dennis (1972). The Mature Society. A View of the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. Gabor, Dennis; and Colombo, Umberto (1978). Beyond the Age of Waste: A Report to the Club of Rome. Oxford : Pergamon Press. 

Career
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.

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

Awards
 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics

References

Category:British electrical engineers
Category:British physicists
Category:1900 births
Category:1979 deaths
Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners