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Definition: Gabor, Dennis from Philip's Encyclopedia

British physicist, b. Hungary. He received the 1971 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention (1947) of holography. He developed the basic technique of creating a three-dimensional image, but it was not until the invention (1960) of the laser by Charles H. Townes that holography became commercially feasible.

Gabor, Dennis (1900-1979)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: United Kingdom, Hungary Subject : biography, technology and manufacturing Hungarian-born British physicist and electrical engineer, famous for his invention of holography - three-dimensional photography using lasers - for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics. Gabor was born on 5 January 1900 in Budapest. He was educated at the Budapest Technical University and then at the Technishe Hochschule in Charlottenburg, Berlin. From 1924 to 1926 he was an assistant there, and for the next three years he held the position of research associate with the German Research Association for High-Voltage Plants. He was a research engineer for the firm of Siemens and Halske in Berlin from 1927 until he fled Nazi Germany for the UK in 1933. He then worked as a research engineer with the Thomson-Houston Company of Rugby 1934-38, and later became a British subject. In 1949, he joined Imperial College, London, as a reader in electronics. He was professor of applied electron physics…
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Full text Article Gabor, Dennis (1900-1979)

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Place: United Kingdom, Hungary Subject : biography, technology and manufacturing Hungarian-born British physicist and electrical engineer, famous for his invention of holography - three-dimensional photography using lasers - for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics. Gabor was born on 5…
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Full text Article Dennis Gabor (1900–1979)

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Method of recording or reproducing a three-dimensional image, or hologram, by means of a pattern of interference produced using a laser beam. To create a hologram, a beam of coherent light (a laser) is split; half the beam falls on a recording medium (such as a photographic plate) unaltered, and the…
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Full text Article Gabor

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Full text Article GABOR, DENNIS

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GABOR, DENNIS
Nationality: British b. 5 June 1900, Budapest, Hungary; d. 8 February 1979, London, UK For his invention and development of the holographic method Gabor studied electrical engineering at Budapest and Berlin, and worked as a research engineer with the firm of Siemens and Halske in Berlin. He fled…
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Full text Article Gabor, Dennis

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1900–1979, Hungarian-born British physicist, Ph.D. Berlin Institute of Technology 1927. Gabor was a researcher with the Thomson-Houston Company, England, from 1934 to 1949 and a professor at the Univ. of London from 1949 until his retirement in 1967. He was awarded the 1971 Nobel prize in Physics…
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