Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor
Gabor, c. 1971
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a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography
Born
Günszberg Dénes 5 June 1900 Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died
9 February 1979 (aged 78) London, England
Known for
Holography Gabor filter Gabor limit Gabor transform Gabor atom Gabor wavelet
Fields
Electrical engineering Physics
Alma mater
Technical University of Berlin Technical University of Budapest
Awards
FRS (1956) Young Medal and Prize (1967) Rumford Medal (1968) IEEE Medal of Honor (1970) Nobel Prize in Physics (1971)
Institutions
Imperial College London British Thomson-Houston
Spouse(s)
Marjorie Louise Butler ( m. 1936) (1911–1981)
adultbasic
Britain
Citizenship
Hungarian British
Doctoral students
Anthony G. Constantinides Eric Ash
era
1800+